Well, my friends, are you up to anything exciting this weekend? Me? Not really, I want to try finish off running the film though my *newly created* pin-hole camera (á la veeb), and I of course want to write more to my novel … a couple of weeks ago I foolishly said I was going to finish chapter two by the end of February! Well, the end of February is almost here (yes, it’s almost March!!) and so it looks like I have 9,000 words to write by the end of Sunday…?!!!
Pinhole photography *is* exciting! You could get up to Oxford on Saturday morning, take some shots of nice expansive architecture to finish off yer film (Said School, Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian and so on), then drop it off to Boots or similar for one hour processing (mentioning it is an experimental film!), go and shop or have a coffee, then get the pix, go home, scan them in and report back here. There is bound to be something of interest on there and then you can spend Sunday working on film#2 with the knowledge you gained from those shots – exposure time, framing etc.
I love pinhole photography, though I’ve only ever done it with paper rather than film. It’s rather time-consuming as you need to run back to the darkroom after every exposure – fun though. If I get a chance later I’ll scan and post some of my efforts.
Cool! I shall look forward to seeing the results… ^_^
I’m a pin-hole newbie, but I’ve made this camera using my old SLR camera (works fine apart from the built in level metre) by drilling a hole in a screwfit lens cover that you fit to the body, and then glewing on a bit foil as used as those little trays you get custard tarts in, and sticking a pinhole through. If I get any half decent/interesting results I’ll post them, don’t you worry… *grins*