Pinholes

[walter23]

Looks great. I ended up ordering a set of pre-drilled plates from pinholeedun.com - 12 different sizes for $33. Can't beat that (close to the price of making them yourself from the right kind of metal stock).

I see the appeal and point of making them yourself as opposed to buying, but my main purpose isn't to hack together something but to get the best quality I can to do some ultra wide to absurd wide angle stuff. Softness is fine, but I didn't want to mess with stupid light fall off issues and weirdness like you can get from an imperfect hole.

Nice stuff, BTW, Katie.

[Jim Jones]

. . . BTW, has anyone ever tried one of those whacky "pin specks" mentioned on a couple of sites? I don't have the link handy but briefly it's the inverse of a pinhole - a suspended dark spot (e.g. on a transparency sheet or embedded in glass), which gives you a negative image (shadows of light emitters cast by the speck). The only person who seems to have done it is the guy who wrote a short paper on it for some obscure journal. Sounds like the signal:noise would be very low and light intensity almost too high for practical use in a pinhole type camera, but it's still kind of interesting.

The pinspeck is mentioned briefly in Matt Young's intriguing paper, http://www.mines.edu/~mmyoung/PHCamera.pdf.

[Glenn Thoreson]

Katie, your images are terrific. It's easy to see you put much more into the making of them than just aiming the camera.