Re: Help!

From: email suppressed
Date: Wed Feb 24 2010 - 11:06:45 PST


Jennifer Nightingale made some pinhole films by using a Super 8
cartridge as the camera with a pinhole enclosure in front of the gate,
and a hair grip to hand crank the film.

I, ahem, wrote about them in my book,

Nicky Hamlyn.

On 24 Feb 2010, at 14:25, miriam jayne martins sampaio wrote:

> really? that is amazing! how did you do that? sorry maybe a stupid
> question but...
> miriam
>
> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:49:14 -0800
> From: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: Help!
> To: email suppressed
>
> I made a pinhole film that used only a cardboard box and pinhole,
> just like you use in photography.
>
> From: Kathryn Ramey <email suppressed>
> To: email suppressed
> Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 9:17:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Help!
>
> Tom Comerford is really the expert on the pinholes for Bolexes. He
> produced a little pamphlet on it a few years back and a number of
> lovely films. He teaches at the School of the Art Institute in
> Chicago and may be willing to answer your questions via email.
>
> In my own experiments I used an extension tube that I capped with
> black wrap with a hole in it made with a straight pin. I measured
> my focal length (the distance from the front of the lens/black wrap
> to the film plane) and knew (roughly) the size of the pinhole
> because my straight pins were .65mm (they are for sewing and thus
> precise). Then I used the following formula
>
> f-stop=focal length/pinhole diameter
>
> I ended up with an f-stop around 90 so I shot outside on a sunny day
> with plus-x reversal and had very good results.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Kathryn
>
>
> From: Bernd Luetzeler <email suppressed>
> To: email suppressed
> Sent: Tue, February 23, 2010 9:08:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Help!
>
> Hi
> there are these laser-pinholes on Ebay:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Skink-Pinhole-Pancake-Pinzone-Kit-for-Canon-DSLR-SLR_W0QQitemZ380208388529QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCamera_Lenses?hash=item58862f99b1#ht_4663wt_1185
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Skink-Pinhole-Pancake-Pinzone-Kit-Nikon-D90-D700-D300s_W0QQitemZ290405122416QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCamera_Lenses?hash=item439d7e8170#ht_5780wt_1230
> http://cgi.ebay.com/Pinzone-Pinhole-Skink-Pinhole-Pancake-Nikon-SLR-DSLR_W0QQitemZ380208377622QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCamera_Lenses?hash=item58862f6f16#ht_4661wt_1185
> this guy manufactures them with or without bayonette adaptors...
> good luck
> Bernd
>
> On 23.02.2010, at 17:56, miriam jayne martins sampaio wrote:
>
> Dear all
> wondering if anyone can give me some info on 16mm pinhole
> filmmaking? (with a bolex)
>
> thanks
> miriam
>
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