The finney bodycaps seem a bit pricey for a $1.75 bodycap with $.02 brass shim material attached. However, if it had a much smaller pinhole it would be a much more useful item.
--- Ed Nazarko <enaza...@acumen-sciences.com> wrote: > The Finney pinhole that's made for Nikon says, on > the paper that comes > with it, that it's F-180 at 50mm; it's a .011" > diameter hole. That > might be a good reference point for experimentation > if you're going to > try drilling and mounting on different body caps. I > will say that I was > very pleasantly surprised by the quality of > workmanship on the Finney > cap - it's nice and solid, lots of the Nikon body > caps are kind of cheap > and flimsy. > > My unhappiness with sharpness may be completely an > issue with normal > expected edge blur - but with a 35mm negative, > you're enlarging that > blur a lot, even to print a 4x6. I've been a lot > happier with the > results from my Polaroid pinhole. Enough so that > I'm thinking about > measuring the box carefully and building a wood > version. > > The biggest question I have about using a d100 would > be the increased > likelihood of getting dust on the sensor during a > day of shooting. With > lenses, it's a minor annoyance - with a pinhole, it > could become a lot > worse. > > ____________________________________________ > Ed Nazarko __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
