> > What size enlargements could I expect to get before the image quality falls > > apart? A contact sheet is not really much use to me, as I may be considering > > publication. Is an 8x10 box the only answer? > > Steve >
Pinhole is also about having the image fall apart. With our pinhole lens we can't get as sharp or high of a resolution as a real lens even though we get great depth of field. I like to make images without the optimum size pinhole. I like to play with different size pinholes, different formats and different enlargement sizes. Pinhole doesn't have to stand up to the same criteria as lens photography. Its different. For me its about the ghosts of people moving through my images due to long exposure times, or the bend of the paper in the camera, or the incongruity of the spatial relationships of near and far objects. I try to make my image fall apart. There is an image in Eric Renner's book of Boston, fig 1.22 on page 19 of the second edition. Its a contact print from an 8x10 flat plane camera with the optimum size pinhole. This sharpness is from being optimum size, large negative, contact print. If you want sharp, try to keep these things in mind. -- Chris Peregoy | http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~peregoy | http://imda.umbc.edu/
