Very cool. As to edge sharpness, is the film supported all the way across by rails of some sort? Is it possible that in building the extension the ends went off plane? Or (can you tell I'm just guessing here? <g>) maybe the rails need to be curved just a bit to accommodate the hole.
Pam Simon Cygielski wrote: > > Hi all, > I've uploaded a couple of my first efforts with my 6x17 cm panoramic > pinhole camera. They're up at > > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/upload/images/path1.jpg and > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/upload/images/phones2.jpg > > I built the camera out of a Holga using bookboard to expand it to its > present size. "Focal" length is 7.5 cm. Any comments would be > appreciated. > I also have a question: is the loss of sharpness on the far edges > inevitable, or can it be corrected somehow? perhaps thinner stock? This > hole was made (fairly carefully) out of a Coke can and sized according > to some pinhole formula (though I forget which one), so it should be > somewhere in the ballpark size-wise. > Thanks, > Simon -- Pamela G. Niedermayer Pinehill Softworks Inc. 600 W. 28th St., Suite 103 Austin, TX 78705 512-236-1677 http://www.pinehill.com
