Pinhole

Panoramic Pinhole photos. So how did you do that? I have a couple of 6×6 pinhole cameras, but they both operate by the old fashioned red-window where you read the numbers off the backing paper. But you say: “35mm film doesn’t have backing paper”. For Medium Format cameras that have wind-on mechanisms that count the frames, you can just load 35mm in those cameras with adapters. But otherwise, you have to custom-load 35mm film. I cut bulk 35mm film to the exact length of 120 film and tape it to the backing paper in the exact right spot. I then […]

You go to the beach and try to find a little time away from your family. Pinhole photography and the super portable setup you can have from such a kit is perfect. I brought my RSS 6×6 camera with Kentmere 100 film and a little table-top tripod. Lovely, start compositions abound on an early morning beach. The exposures outside were around 1-2 seconds, as I remember it. Permanent beach umbrella, before the summer beach-goers have arrived. Unmanned lifeguard stand. It says Lifeguard On Duty, but they lied. A pair of children’s teal blue/green Crocs water shoes. I should have shot

Color photography with my Reality So Subtle 6×6 pinhole. 20mm, super-wide focal length. The first one is a familiar subject that I’ve come to like, a piece of construction equipment. They offer such bright yellow, red, and orange colors that it hard to ignore them. I will probably put together a gallery and try to start taking more. The second one of an old chimney from the Porterdale Mills in Porterdale, GA, a now defunct textile mill just west of Covington, GA. Time has passed the old mill town by now, which it’s copious numbers of mill houses. The old

A couple of 35mm pinhole images. Taken at the beach one summer day in New Jersey. Ilford Pan F film to get the finest grain. I like this camera and format, but this first-generation model has flaws that are being addressed by the maker for me. This format needs very simple subjects, in my opinion. Few details. Bold lines. And it works. AND the camera is tiny and with its 24mm square format, you get around 50 photos on a 36exp roll.

Had the 6×6 Cube pinhole from Chroma.Camera out and tried a few photos with Fomapan 100. Not 100% happy with what I got, but it was interesting. I think the pinhole isn’t right and I got a lot of light leaks around the back window. I think I am the victim of a Mk 1 product and I sent the camera and it’s 35mm Cube camera back to Steve at Chroma to get them both replaced. Got these two, which were OK, the first one is better.