I took the SuperSense 6/66 Instant Pinhole on yesterday's cycle ride again, with the intent of doing a selfie of myself with the bicycle on one of the nicer highway pedestrian crossings on my route. I set it up for a wide view (bellows position #2) and calculated exposure with the 0.12mm pinhole to be about 4 seconds. The first exposure was to test my exposure calculations ... Thank the gods for the current version of Polaroid SX-70 B&W film, which has processed enough after just four-five minutes that I can tell whether the exposure is good. :)
https://flic.kr/p/2iXjuYP Having made that exposure, I then realized the folly: The Instant Pinhole camera has no self time, actually no shutter: You make the exposure by twisting the blind in the standard the right direction and uncovering the pinhole for a set amount of time, then twisting it back. To achieve this, I had to pull the camera much closer so it would be within arm's reach, and then carefully do the dance with the shutter blind, trying not to move the camera overmuch. https://flic.kr/p/2iXjuZf Eh! what's life without a little challenge? :D Fun stuff. onwards! G — "Simplify, simplify, simplify.” ~ Henry David Thoreau "One 'simplify' would have sufficed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
