In the small countryside village where I live in the East of France, there is an association defending selective sorting of litter and recycling. About one year ago, they organized a "recuperation Saturday" during which a large tent was set up on the village square and a lot of information about environmental protection was given to visitors. People of this association invited me to show how I could transform all kinds of boxes in cameras (they had already seen me wandering with old cake metal boxes, cardboard boxes etc).Among the very various pinhole cameras I showed was an old "attaché-case" with 2 pinholes which makes very nice pictures on 11x 17" paper. At the end of the afternoon I invited all present people to pose for a direct pinhole group picture on 20"x24" paper And guess what was the camera ? I wanted to stay in the "tune" of the day (litter recycling...); so I transformed my own black plastic circular trash bin in a "giant" pinhole camera. Easy trick : piercing black plastic and installing inside a pinhole made in a steel foil. That made a very good camera, not too heavy, very stable on the ground, easy to carry (2 handles), very practical to load/unload ( the top lid is really lightproof without need of black tape ).; Of course, I get strangely distorted pictures since not only the piece of paper is curved because of the round shape but the distance to the pinhole is not the same in the height axis (because the plastic trash bin is not cylindrical but a section of a cone -narrower at the bottom than at the top-). The pose for the group picture (about 40 people) vas 40 minutes!! Not everybody was patient enough to stay in place but some did and for everyone present, it has been a unique experience of being photographed by a trash bin... Ah... What are we going to invent for pinhole's sake ?? Let's go on pinholing, Cheers from France, Jean
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- From: "Guy Glorieux" <[email protected]> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Re: really big pinhole camera > As an example of a not-so-big pinhole camera, I'll just mention "en passant" > that I converted my former office briefcase from my times as a financial > economist into an 8x10 pinhole. Works fine, sort of James Bondish look to > it... -:)) > So, why not a suitcase? It would obviously have quite a wide angle > coverage... Neat! > > Guy > > Steve Boerner wrote: > > > I wonder if you could make a "really big" pinhole camera out of a suitcase > > or foot locker from a garage sale? (sure you could and it would be > > lighter, more stable, and already have a handle!) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/ >
