Re: [pinhole-discussion] pinhole light falloff vs. circle of coverage question

2003-04-11 Thread G.Penate
- Original Message - From: "Uptown Gallery" > If one set up a 4x5 bellows camera for pinhole with an appropriate pinhole > for double extension (say 300 mm), placed the bellows at 300 mm but used a 4 > x 5 filmholder, would that place the worst of the edge falloff outside the > 4x5 image?

Re: [pinhole-discussion] pinhole light falloff vs. circle of coverage question

2003-04-11 Thread Nick Dvoracek
At 300mm, fall off would be way outside a 4x5 negative. I use 125mm cameras with no noticable fall off. Pretty long focal length at 300mm though and lng exposures. Nick On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Uptown Gallery wrote: Hello: If one set up a 4x5 bellows camera for pinho

RE: [pinhole-discussion] new to list/pinhole photography

2003-04-11 Thread Rauch, Shelley
Nice and informative article. The mathematical formulae look a little scary, but I'm sure I could figure it out. I don't, unfortunately, have access to a flatbed scanner, I only have the other kind. Very nice article. I'm tucking this away for future reference. Most everyone in class did eit

Re: [pinhole-discussion] new to list/pinhole photography

2003-04-11 Thread G.Penate
Shelley, Pinhole photography is in technical aspects not different than glass lens photography. Focal length, aperture (not aperture size), exposure, angle of view, light fall off at the edges of film, reciprocity corrections, etc., are all concepts that function the same whether the lens is a pi

[pinhole-discussion] new to list/pinhole photography

2003-04-11 Thread Rauch, Shelley
Warning: >>NEWBIE QUESTIONS<< Hello, I'm currently a student at a local community college where we are building (in photo 102, strangely enough) pinhole cameras. My teacher, for some reason, didn't see fit to tell us anything about pinhole photography except 'trial and error', repeated ad naus