[pinhole-discussion] Enlarging

2001-08-17 Thread Christian Harkness
Murray, I have enlarged 35mm pinhole images [used a body cap and home-made pinhole] to mural size, about four feet by seven feet, with no problem. Of course it does depend on the subject matter, and your vision of the image. chris --- http://ChristianHarkness.tripod.com Join 18 million

Re: [pinhole-discussion] questions comments

2001-08-17 Thread Guillermo
- Original Message - From: Gordon J. Holtslander hol...@duke.usask.ca You are more or less correct, as you enlarge your image from a pinhole negative on 35 mm film you will be making the limited resolution of the image more apparent. If you want a really sharp 8x10 pinhole images the

Re: [pinhole-discussion] questions comments

2001-08-17 Thread Gordon J. Holtslander
Hi: I _think_ this is what happens - knowledgeable people feel free to correct me. There are two things that limit the pinhole resolution: I believe a pinhole image's - the negative - limit of resolution is the size of the pinhole - The finest detail the image can create is the same as the

Re: [pinhole-discussion] questions comments

2001-08-17 Thread William Erickson
My standard, sincere, reply to questions about 'will it work? is try it'. Pinhole is not primarily about sharp anyway, depth of field issues aside. You may especially like soft, glowing color pinhole images. . - Original Message - From: mvdtempor...@aol.com To:

Re: [pinhole-discussion] questions commentsPop corn

2001-08-17 Thread JMeyerhofe
Hi, I have a question on the pop corn tin. Is it rectangular or round? Why did you not just poke a hole in the pop corn tin Thanks for the info.It seems so simplified. John

RE: [pinhole-discussion] questions comments

2001-08-17 Thread Chuck Flagg
Murray wrote BUT, people are telling me I will probably be disappointed by anything larger than 5 x 7 or so from my 35 mm pinhole negatives because they say pinhole images are not very sharp. Murry, My favorite pinhole camera is a large popcorn tin. It uses 11x14 photo paper

[pinhole-discussion] questions comments

2001-08-17 Thread MVDtemporary
Hello: Excuse me if I already asked this - if I did, I forgot the replies already (but I don't think I did). Oh, firstly, apologies for the html forwarding garbage characters...I don't think AOL software lets one too picky about how they do things. I am a little confused, perhaps only by my

[pinhole-discussion] Xerox photo transfers

2001-08-17 Thread Jon
Guillermo, Check out Theresa Airey's book Creative Photo Printmaking. She has a chapter on using Xerox machines for doing transfers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0817437258/qid=998017559/sr=1-1/ref=s c_b_1/002-3872627-9328828 Hope that helps, Jon Or how about taking it further