Just an intuitive guess, but the times sound a little on the short side. For night exposures, I expose from a half hour after sunset until a half hour before sunrise. Gives decent shadow detail without washing evrything out. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip willarney" <pwillar...@yahoo.com> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] ballpark pinhole exposures for a gift pinhole camera?
> I'm converting several cheapie 35mm cameras to pinhole > cameras as gifts for my nieces and nephews (remove > shutter & lens, poke & sand pinhole in bit of aluminum > pop can). I want to put an exposure guide (a variant > on the old sunny-16 rule) on a sticker on the back to > get them started, and wondered of this sounded about > right to folks (I'm basing this on my own dabbling, > but my records aren't great (my exposure notebook got > washed!)(the focal length is about 40 mm, and I > haven't figured out an exact f-stop for the pinholes > yet). > > pwillar...@yahoo.com > > Use ASA 100 film > Bright sun: 2-4 seconds > Partly shaded on sunny day: 4-10 seconds > Full shade: 10-20 seconds > Cloudy day: 10-20 seconds > Night: try 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, > (guess, and try a couple of different exposures) > Inside, lit by bright window: 1-4 minutes > Inside, lit by light bulbs: 2-10 minutes > Inside, dim: try 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
