I find that if you leave the dark slide in, it tends to wobble or catch the breeze and move the camera. I pull it out and then throw my jacket or a black plastic bag over the back of the camera. that's what dark cloths are for in large format lens photography. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matti Koskinen" <mjkos...@koti.soon.fi> To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:21 AM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] getting somewhere (and a new question)
> First, a warm thank to everybody. With your help I'm getting somewhere > with this pinhole business, and getting results that are more and more > better. Last evening I shot a picture from a rapid and as I was under a > bridge and light conditions were not the best, approximating the effect > of #0 filter, I came up to one hour exposure (which turned out to be bit > too long). But as the exposure was so long, there's a light leak from > the filmholder. Now the question is: is it better to remove the slider > totally or leave it in the open position in the filmholder? The leak has > come from the opening, it's not too bad (clone tools are invented), but > the white edge of the negative has two dark dots from which two dark, > but narrower stripes go diagonally over the entire negative. As I have > never actually used large-size films, there are many things I need to > ask or explore. > Using low-contrast filter is now more than enough, so I don't have that > hurry to move to use film. I even got some clouds visible :-) > Main thing I'm pleased with using filter is, that the sky doesn't look > totally burnt. Eg. trees seen against the sky have a distinct contour, > not like without the filter when smaller branches just disappeared. > And yesterday pinhole-camera showed it's superiority. I had a SLR and a > digital camera too with me, but both run out of batteries, but with > pinhole-cam, no problem :-) > > thanks > > -matti > mjkos...@koti.soon.fi > > > _______________________________________________ > Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ >
