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It’s been a little while since I last shot any pinhole cameras. I’ve been eyeing up several on the market. Pinhole cameras are quite literally a light tight box with a hole. So I (yet again) made my own panoramic 35mm camera. Currently I don’t have the right equipment to fully scan the full width of the images it produces, but today was a first roll trial just to make sure it works anyway.

Shot on Lucky 100, the camera in theory has a f=stop of 167. Using Pinhole assist, I got dome images, but they are on the thin side negative wise. I can’t be 100% on the film or my 1:100 stand developing water was a bit too cold (it is winter), but I think I will both lean towards a bit longer exposure and perhaps try a couple of meters. This said, I got images!

Ive said it before, as many others have. There is something special about pinhole images. You are less catching a moment in time than a period of time in one frame. Motion blurs, cars and people can disappear completely. The concept looking at one of the images above, that a ray of light bounced off a section of the sky tower ~2km away and fell into my 0.15mm hole into a dark box is still kind of amazing – even though that just how it all works.

So thats test 1. In test 2 I will share some images of the camera itself as well as another selection of images. I’m also working on a adapted 120film camera to Pinhole at the same time, so things might roll in out of order… time will tell.

Over the 6 minutes this was exposed, the flowers were waving in the wind – its amazing how they clearly settled back into position between each breeze!