Ed, Wow, someone else that is experiencing the some thing I am. I came from a Polaroid Pinhole and love the results with B&W. I tried the Finney so I could experiment with color. I had heard that Polaroid color didn't have the best reciprocity. I was surprised by the softness. However, I also Iike some of the results I got with the Finney. My shots were still usable, it sounds like yours aren't. Do you have any examples of your results?
Jason Russell WISH-TV Indianapolis, IN One in the same right now... http://www.jason.russell.name/ http://www.mafiainc.biz/ "If you go any faster we're gonna travel back through time." ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Nazarko" <enazar...@comcast.net> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 4:28 PM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Finney SLR soft focus; Polaroid film with minimal reciprocity failure > I have a Finney cap for Nikon, and I found it to be much softer than is > usable, tried it on two different Nikon bodies. My comparison is with a > Polaroid pinhole kit that produces magnificently sharp images. I agree that > sometimes you want different effects, but my main reason for buying the > pinhole instead of making it was hoping for better quality control because I > had specific images I was trying to get on a deadline. I was at least > hoping for recognizable objects from the Finney pinhole images, and that's > not what I'm getting. Just huge fuzzy blobs. Disappointing. > > On the many questions and comments on Polaroid film and reciprocity failure > - I found on Sunday that Polaroid's Vivid Color film, 689, appears to have > little to no reciprocity issues at exposures up to 30 seconds. I'm not sure > if there's an equivalent in 4x5 pack or sheet. Polaroid has also introduced > some new films which boast improved resistance to reciprocity effects. > > ____________________________________________ > Ed Nazarko > >
