04-04-12 – Pinholes, Lomos & Holgas, Oh My!

Fair enough. It seems other than you price comment the $50 wallyworld camera would have fit the bill.

He also said “less than 1mp”. Does the Wally World one qualify? I believe a “VGA” qualifies (640x480px). I’ve got an old cell phone that would qualify as well… maybe that’s what I’ll use… the microSD card is easier to use than the Spiderman software.

Oh yeah It was a 640 by 480 max built in memory was around 50 mb if I remember right. I didn’t have to do any editing at all and Fark thought they were fine with the old file size limits. Four years ago I had a better cell phone camera. But no way to transfer those crappy cell phone pics to my computer. lol

It occurs to me that a “Difficulty: No Post-Processing besides resize and crop” may be in order.

I noticed while doing a photoshop for Misfit Squirrels that the Filter Forge free pack of filters includes a Holga setting. Obviously, I won’t be using that, but it might be important to warn others.

…except that would completely screw me because I have to take photos of my developed film on a white light table, then invert, brighten/contrast/etc. using photoshop since I don’t print the images out directly from the lab. The general rules are pretty clear regarding what sort of rules apply – software filters are already included, I believe.

It occurs to me that a “Difficulty: No Post-Processing besides resize and crop” may be in order.

I noticed while doing a photoshop for Misfit Squirrels that the Filter Forge free pack of filters includes a Holga setting. Obviously, I won’t be using that, but it might be important to warn others.

…except that would completely screw me because I have to take photos of my developed film on a white light table, then invert, brighten/contrast/etc. using photoshop since I don’t print the images out directly from the lab. The general rules are pretty clear regarding what sort of rules apply – software filters are already included, I believe.

…or not

Anybody remember making a pinhole camera out of 110 film cartridges?

My Holga pin-hole lens for the DSLR arrived today. Looking forward to playing with it more when my remote shutter release finally arrives.

Use the self-timer – it’s not like you’re going to need split-second timing on the shutter release!

Use the self-timer – it’s not like you’re going to need split-second timing on the shutter release!

Trying to shoot indoors last night was requiring 2min or so exposures, though that kind of defeats the usefulness of the pinhole’s infinite depth of field I know. It’s cloudy/cold/windy and soon to be rainy as well here this weekend, so it’s either indoors or next week some time before I get to experiment further. That and I won the eBay auction for the remote release 2 days after I purchased the Holga lens, the lens came from Hong Kong and got here faster than the remote which is coming from somewhere in the states. 😡

Orionid, it cost about $160 to get the i/r filter removed from my xTi, but it does make it an ‘unusual’ camera rig. D/q’d for the expense, or okay for the uniqueness?

//well, uniqueness compared to most everyone else but you, with your magical mysterious toys…

Last weekend I made a ‘pinhole lens’ out of an old AI Sigma zoom. Just removed all of the optics, the diaphragm (it was busted) and the helicoids.

Haven’t been able to test it properly, handheld gets me too much blur, may need to make the hole smaller. Hell, I’m even able to zoom a bit with the thing. You can take a look at it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliogt/7030037787/in/photostream/

If I get some free time this weekend I’ll mount it on a film camera and expose some B/W film with it.

I guess it’s lo-fi enough, right?