Testing A Polaroid Pinhole Camera
Here is the companion post to my first post from today. This one has the same images as scans of the prints, and unaltered scans of the negatives. Today’s other post shows the negatives, many of them quite heavily edited.
This post is about testing a pinhole camera, an activity I started in week nine and finished here in week ten. Over the past few weeks, as time allowed, I assembled a Polaroid pinhole camera from various parts I already had, or which came available locally just when needed. If you are interested in how I did that, check out my post Making a Polaroid Pinhole Camera. The first shot was taken indoors and worked out deceptively well. The outdoor tests produced some very disappointing results, but I think I am close to understanding the camera and exposure determination now that I have shot this first pack of film.
The technical synopsis for this camera is:
- 0.566 mm diameter pinhole,
- aperture of f-327,
- 185 mm focal length,
- 35.5° angle of view,
- built-in shutter with only a bulb setting – opened and closed with a cable release,
- Polaroid Land 100 series film pack holder,
- shoe-mounted view finder,
- 58 mm threaded…
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Pinhole Polaroid Negatives
As detailed a few days ago, I am the proud owner of a pinhole camera I made out of miscellaneous bits and pieces of camera gear. The next step was to learn how to use it. I have detailed that process in a companion post at 52Rolls.net. There you will find that I have had trouble making good exposures while here you will see some of my attempts to make the most of those images by editing their “negatives” – a paper (non-transparent) negative that is left behind when you peel apart the Fuji FP-3000B black and white instant film made for the Polaroid Land cameras.
Sk8ter Parking
My recent post Charity Awning was taken here right after I took this photo, you can see that subject in the background.
These guys had somehow isolated a square area of empty parking spaces on a slope between the charity shop and a brew pub for skateboarding.
I am not sure how they managed because it was a busy day and parking spaces were at a premium.
As I was leaving a guy in an aggressive looking car, with a heavily made up and dyed companion pulled in.
They parked in one of the spots in the middle of this area right in front of where the resting skaters and friends were sitting.
I did not stick around to see if there was any drama.
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Curiosity
This little dog runs the Curiosity Shop on Fort Street and has somehow finagled a human to keep it warm and to help compensate for far too short legs.
The human calls me ‘the camera guy’ but I don’t have a name for the dog or his man.
I check out his old cameras from time to time, which is where the name comes from, but I also check out other stuff.
I am not a great customer though, I have only ever bought one camera from the shop.
I was walking past the shop when I found the dog had brought him outside to test a pair of binoculars.
I was checking out the Yashica AFMii to see if it was worth using and asked if I could take their picture.
This picture is one of an emerging series of portraits taken of vendors of one kind and another around town.
Square Lines IX
When the rail shadows in Market Square hit the stairs, the patterns start to fool the eye.
I find this shot a bit disorienting and I can’t recall if it is of the treads or the risers.
This was another on my shortlist for submitting to a contest.
If you browse through my Market Square posts you will find many variations on the railing shadows theme.
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Nine from Autoboy 2
My week 9 post for the 52Rolls project, all from the same roll of film as today’s other post.
My week nine has ended so I think I will post nine images from a roll made this week, though there are others that I like on that roll. They were made with a Canon Sure Shot AF35Mii (aka Autoboy 2 and [New] Sure Shot).
Some pictures from this camera were posted in my week seven when first testing the camera when I was trying to get a good shot from a cheap plastic point and shoot to enter in a contest. I shot another roll this week, though I ended up choosing an image from the first roll to enter in the competition.
It was a glorious spring day when I took these photos. Others from this roll have already appeared on my blog here and here. My entry to Hamish Gill’s competition can be found here, though it was a week 7 roll. Check out the other submissions – there are some very…
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