[pinhole-discussion] wwpd (world wide pinhole day)

2001-02-15 Thread Matti J Koskinen
hi all. I must admit, I'm an alien too. In high school is was Cosmic, because of my last name. But, to me 29 of April is fine. best -matti mjkos...@sci.fi

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Modifiers of Polaroid Joycams

2001-02-08 Thread Matti J Koskinen
Dan Gerber wrote: Hello All, I am interested in modifying a Polaroid Joycam for pinhole use, and have a question to those that have done this: When modifying the camera, did you retain the mirror, or did you rip the entire top of the cam off, and just build a box with the pinhole in it?

[pinhole-discussion] viewfinder

2001-01-25 Thread Matti J Koskinen
hi all I managed to build two rollfilm PH-cameras, but taking test rolls showed that a viewfinder could be more than handy. I'm thinking of a simple wire viewfinder but how to set it up? (angles etc.) thanks -matti mjkos...@sci.fi

[pinhole-discussion] this and that

2001-01-12 Thread Matti J Koskinen
hi all thanks for everybody replying my Polaroid 500 questions. I got quite good pictures with it inside, but outdoors, maybe because of the mirror Joycam has, the upper part of the image was completely overexposed and it was semi-circle shaped. But ideas are going on. I took this morning a

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Polaroid 500

2001-01-05 Thread Matti J Koskinen
is the ISO speed. For those that have not seen the Polaroid Joycam, it is an integral film camera with a manual (rather than motorized) film ejection mechanism. Mike Vande Bunt Matti J Koskinen wrote: I got my first pictures made with my modified Joycam and as in one previous message

[pinhole-discussion] Polaroid 500

2001-01-03 Thread Matti J Koskinen
Hi all It's been a pleasure to watch this list for a while now. As the subject says, I have such a film and would like to know if it's worth something without the Joycam? My first look of it revealed nothing how to use it, so I'm planning to visit a local shop to buy a Joycam and hack it a bit,

[pinhole-discussion] newbie

2000-12-21 Thread Matti J Koskinen
hi all I joined this list last weekend and been lurking a week, so it's time to introduce myself. I've a computer engineer by profession and been photographing since mid-seventies. Last winter I got interested in pinhole-photography. Original reason was that I read Ansel Adams' The Camera and