Time
So I made a medium format pinhole camera 10 days (two weekends) ago and still haven’t shot anything with it. I am not sure my shooting style is suited to the idea of a book in 30 days. I need to make some time for shooting but life keeps getting in the way.
Pinhole Woody By: Greg Roberts
Maybe to get the ball rolling I need to start by just doing some quick still life shots and a couple outdoor shots to verify my exposures etc, so I am confident that when I take the time to make a “real” shot I am ready.
In case you are wondering how the pop can was a part of this: The pinhole was made out of aluminum cut from a pop can. Kitchen scissors are all that is needed to cut a piece of the can into the right size. Once I had a nice piece of thin aluminum I used fine grit sandpaper to make it even a little thinner. The next step was to make a small indentation with a rounded dremel tool tip. Finally the pinhole was opened up by sanding down the indentation, and re-working it with the round tool tip until it just barely opened. By then scanning the pinhole at 4800 dpi on a flatbed scanner I was able to verify that 1) it was round 2) it was 0.43 mm in diameter. In order to get an optimal image for an 81mm focal length I wanted a 0.4mm pinhole, and after 6 attempts decided that 0.43mm was close enough.
