The Pinhole is still collecting light!

Another shot from my contraption:



What fun!

Agfa APX 100 4"x5" Sheet film, approx. f/280, 1 minute exposure, developed in HC-110 for 7 min.

Linhof Technika III Pinhole!

A while ago I acquired a Linhof Technika III Large Format 4x5 camera - without a lens. I wanted to try LF but also was looking to resell the Camera for a profit. I had no film, and no lens- not a good start for testing out how light tight the bellows are...

I had the bright idea of taking the lens mount board and attaching a pinhole to it. This way I could accomplish my goals and try Pinhole at the same time. A little searching around got me a few sheets of donated film. I did a little research and fashioned myself a .5mm pinhole 'lens'.

When mounted on the camera, and the bellows are pulled out to about 5 1/2 inches from the film plane, it gives me an aperture of about f/280, and a field of view roughly equivalent to a 40mm lens on a 35mm camera.

Here is the camera:


and here is the negative on my small light box - a one minute exposure:


and here is the inverted image:


I shot the negative with my Canon Digital Rebel XT.

I have a couple more sheets of film, and will post those as well when they are ready - then the camera goes up for auction.

I may still make or buy a medium format pinhole - what fun!

King's Landing - 1951 Zeiss Ikon Nettar 6x6 folding camera (517/16)

Shot on very expired, but frozen TMAX.

More from King's Landing - Ilford PanF+

Here are the shots on the PanF+, also from the Canon Elan 7N...same lenses as before. There was little filtering - maybe yellow, and ND on the waterfalls. most were shot with a tripod.

I loved the shot with the 2 ladies interacting with the horse - it just begged for sepia!

King's Landing

Another Photo Club field trip - this time out to the historical village of King's Landing. I ended up shooting digital (Canon 20D), and black and white film (Canon Elan 7N - Ilford SFX200 and Ilford PanF+, Zeiss Ikon Folding Camera - really old Tri-X)

Here are the shots from the Ilford SFX200. I bought this film slightly expired about 3 years ago (I had never tried it before), and shot about half of it in Calgary. I finally got around to finishing it off - YAY!! All the photos were with a RED #25 filter and shot using either the Canon EF 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 USM, or the Canon EF 70-210mm f3.5-4.5 USM. For some photos it gives a nice efect.

Yard Swap!

Our local photo club - Photo Fredericton - recently did a Yard Swap as a field trip. I had never heard of it before - but essentially, you put your name and address into a hat and pick someone else's yard to go and photograph. We are meeting tomorrow night - and I just finished selecting and editing the ones I will be sharing. Here they are!



For these fun outings - I like to play around a little with some photo editing. It gives me an opportunity to learn! All in all, it was a fun outing.

M42 to EOS

What does M42 to EOS mean? Well they are both lens mounts - the M42 is an older screwmount and EOS (or more appropriately Canon EF) is the new Canon autofocus lens mount. I just got an adaptor so I can use the M42 Screwmount type lenses on my Canon EOS camera bodies (Elan 7N, 20D, and XT).

Why? Why not? I (somewhat) recently got an inexpensive screwmount camera and lens. The lens is a Russion Zenit Helios-44-2 58mm f/2. I got some nice photos on the film camera - and thought it would be fun to mount the Helios on my 20D.

Well I took the combo out with me to the park with the kids - I got a few photos of leaves as they are beginning to turn.






So far I like this combination. The photos were in the f/2-f/4 range - and ISO 400. The only post processing I did was to correct the colour balance, and exposure. There was also a minimal amount of sharpening.