[LargeFormat] Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Wyndham pinhole camera project

[john frost]

If you have 8x10 filmholders, that would be the size to use. Contact
prints from a distance look as good as lensed photos. build a box camera
from foam core or doorskin plywood. Use a front panel in slots in the
camera to change focal length, and make the lensboard size to fit
whatever your other cameras use. I recommend using distances for your
lenses.

You may find that a 16 oz. 8x10 camera is a good thing....

john (:>)

Schuyler.Grace@AmericaWest.com wrote:
> 
> I am astounded by many of the photos that were taken during the pinhole
> event, and those on the web site have inspired me to dive in, too.  Would
> anyone on the list care to share their experiences with pinhole photography,
> especially including equipment preferences?  In my younger days, I built a
> shoebox pinhole camera, but now, I have access to better equipment and a
> little more cash, so I think I'd like to work with something nicer and
> easier to control.  While I probably won't go the dedicated pinhole camera
> route, unless I build my own, I was thinking about getting a precision
> pinhole or two for either my 4x5 or my 8x10.
> 
> Suggestions?  Comments?  Large gusts of hot air?
> 
> Schuyler Grace
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Glorieux [mailto:guy.glorieux@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:07 PM
> To: LargeFormat
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Wyndham pinhole
> camera project
> 
> Hi Clive and others,
> It seems that you had an image of this bridge on the LF list not too
> long ago.  Here is an interesting variation from the Worldwide pinhole
> photography day Gallery.
> http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2002/index.php?id=32
> 
> I'l get back to you on the Wyndham hotel pinhole camera.  At this satge,
> suffice it to say that it went beyond our most optimistic expectations,
> that the picture has an incredible beauty and power as a 12 feet wide by
> 9 feet high image (paper negative) and that we still have a lot of work
> before we get to have a great positive image. Me. my wife and my friends
> are just exhausted from having set-up the room, shot the iamge,
> disassembled the set-up and processed the negative print all in a period
> from saturday noon to tuesday 5:00Am, virtually non-stop.  (BTW, the
> F/stop was F/564...).
> Talk to you soon,
> Guy
> 
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