Hi Ronnie, welcome to the list. In my work with pinhole and zoneplate bodycaps I use any slide film which is of high contrast due to the low-contrast nature of pinhole. My latest ventures are with Velvia, a nice contrasty slide film. If you have good friends in a developing lab, or if you have the facilities to develop slide film yourself, I have a wonderful solution. My current experiment is to shoot Velvia at ASA 400, and push it 3 stops in the soup. This does two things, 1. it further intensifies the contrast, and 2. intensifies the appearance of grain in the resulting 6x9 print on cibachrome. Velvia holds up well to experimentation in development and the enhanced grain and contrast work well aesthetically with the zoneplate and pinhole imagery.
Have fun! Don --- "Pettit, Ronnie (RBI-US RCD)" <ronnie.pet...@reedbusiness.com> wrote: > > I have been a lurker on this list for a few months > and have enjoyed the > vast amount of knowledge I have been able to glean > from cyberspace. > I have been a fan of pinhole photography since my > college days where I > studied under Wiley Sanderson, Mary Ruth Moore and > Dr Robert Nix at the > University of Georgia...Bid deal, I know... I have a > 4x5 multi focal length > and a 8x10 that I don't currently us due to not > having a darkroom at the > moment...I now typically use a body cap pinhole on > my old 35 mm. > My question to the group is...Does anyone use > transparency film for pinhole > use and if so, what problems might be associated > with that in contrast to > the typical negative film? I ask this because I have > seen that the > Ilfochrome or Cibachrome is such the standard for > the highest quality color > printing. Any thoughts comments or contusions? > Thanks > Ronnie Pettit > > _______________________________________________ > Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
