[LargeFormat] Re Worldwide Pinhole Photography

[Clive Warren]

At 11:53 am +0100 13/4/02, philip.lambert wrote:
>I am wondering whether I could use a pinhole camera as an ultrawide camera.
>I thought I might tape a suitable length of 120 rollfilm negative inside a
>shoe box on the long side.  There is sure to be a falling off in
>illumination towards the edges. In conventional ultrawide photography the
>use of a graduated centre filter is suggested to reduce the light in the
>middle region of the negative.  Is such a filter needed with a pinhole
>camera and if so what size and how is it to be contrived? Philip

Philip,

Try a curved film plane - needs another piece of cardboard :-)

Cheers,
        Clive