f295 member Longbow3 is building a double-sided, multi-focal length camera! It shoots 2×3 and is 30mm on one side and 90mm on the other. Sweeeeet!
Check it out at f295
Tag: Pinhole
Pinhole photography issue of Black and White Photography Magazine
The July 2006 issue of B&W Black and White Photography Magazine is dedicated to pinhole photography! It features work by Katie Cooke and several members of the f295 Pinhole Photography Forum (among others), as well as four articles on pinhole photography. Ms. Cooke’s work alone is worth the price of the issue and there’s lots of other talent in there, so check it out!
New book: Timescapes Japan – A Pinhole Journey
A book of Edward Levinson‘s pinhole photographs will be published June, 2006. The book is titled "Timescapes Japan – A Pinhole Journey" and contains images of Japan as seen through the eyes of Edward Levinson and his pinhole cameras. Selected black and white photographs from three series of work from 1993 to recent work with brief text in English and Japanese.
The featured photographs are from Levinson’s "Healing Landscapes", "Sacred Japan", and "Japanese Cityscapes" series.
The book is being published by Nippon Camera Publishing Co. and will sell for 3,000 yen (tentative price about $30 US)
For more information, see Edward Levinson’s website.
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DIY high capacity panoramic pinhole camera
John from Team Droid has great instructions, with step-by-step photos, for how to build a 30-shot 120 foamcore pinhole camera (phew!). He writes:
It all started on a long plane flight in the beginning of 2006. I was doodling in my Moleskine notebook and musing about pinhole cameras when and idea struck me. What if I made a camera that was panoramic and high capacity at the same time. I had been shooting with my 6×9 medium format pinhole (120 film) for a few weeks and was happy with the images but wished I could get more than eight shots a roll and have a wider field of view. What I thought was if I moved the pinhole closer to the film plane and rotated to aspect 90 degrees I could get dozens of images on a single roll of film and still get a pretty good sized negative. Turns out I can get about 30 images on a roll and even a quickly made pinhole will produce a satisfactory sharpness.
Check it out at Team Droid
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Verhoeven/Bell pinhole & Holga phototography show, Yokohama, JP
This show features color pinhole photographs done in Kyoto, Japan by Fred Verhoeven and black and white Woca Plastic Camera Photographs of northern Japan by Court Bell.
Fred Verhoeven is a photographer from San Francisco, CA. Court Bell is a American Photographer living in Sendai, Japan. This show is presented as Japan viewed through American eyes.
Gallery is located minutes away from JR Kannai Station in Yokohama.
Gallery Otamachi
3-35-2 Otamachi
Naka-ku
Yokohama, Kanagawa, JapanDates: Monday, June 05, 2006 – Sunday, June 11, 2006
Opening reception: Thursday, June 08, 2006 at 05:00 PMArtist websites at www.fred-verhoeven.com & www.courtbell.com
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Completely homemade folding pinhole camera
gabriel531 writes:
Here’s my most ambitious pinhole project yet – a 6×6 camera for 120 roll film with a bellows that can be pulled in to 50mm and extended to 90mm. The camera also has two pinholes – a 0.27 mm for the 50mm setting (equals f185) and a 0.36 mm pinhole for 90mm (equals f250).
This camera looks sweet! Unlike most folders, this one is built from scratch, rather than sticking a pinhole on an existing camera body. Great work!
The rest of this blog, Captured Starlight, is full of pinholey goodness. Check it out!
Read plans at Captured Starlight or discussion about it at f295 Pinhole Forum
Thanks to Paul Beard for the heads up!
Dirkon paper pinhole camera gets a facelift
The folks at Lighthouse in a Tree have given the Dirkon DIY 35mm paper pinhole camera a facelift! Download their free PDF, print it, cut out the parts, follow their fancy 3D video of how to assemble the parts, and you’re good to go!
Download plans at Lightouse in a Tree
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Pinhole Visions interview: Robert Johnson and Great Picture Project
The following is a brief interview with Robert Johnson regarding "The Great Picture" project [blogged previously]. The Great Picture project is part of a larger, on-going project to document the closed El Toro Marine Corp Air Station. Project members include photographers Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada.
PV: How did the idea originate to turn a hangar at El Toro Air Station into a pinhole camera?
RJ: One of our group members (Clayton Spada) has been working/teaching in China. As part of some of the student’s projects there, they were experimenting with making large (roughly 8’X12′) pinhole images…
Read interview at Pinhole Visions
Pinhole Photography Public Art Project workshop, Columbia, SC, US
Have fun exploring the earliest form of photography by building your own camera. In this workshop participants build their own pinhole cameras and make exposures and prints. The workshop covers the history of photography and a variety of techniques for using pinhole photography.
Where: Columbia Museum of Art, The Art School
corner of Main and Hampton streets
Columbia, South Carolina, US
When: Sunday, 4 June, 2006, 1:00–4:30pm
Instructor: Grant Jackson
How much: $95 / $75 museum members. All supplies included.
Contact: columbiamuseum.org, lpierce AT columbiamuseum DOT org, 803.343.2208
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Pinholaroid: Polaroid OneStep pinhole conversion instructions
Again, the title says it all. Clear instructions, heaps of illustrative photos.
Read tutorial at Found Photography
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