Hello fellow covidians, today I decided to try a few pinhole photos. World Pinhole Day is at the end of this month, so why not spend some of this time to return to that format. Just before the “events” I sold my Ondu pinhole camera in order to get a new lens for my digital camera. I haven’t missed it at all, but now I didn’t own a pinhole camera…or did I??
Oh Yeah, the Diana F+ has a pinhole setting. Also, I could use some of the regular lenses to finish the film. I decided to use an old TMax film, that has been lying around for a while.
The pinhole of the Diana has a diameter of about f150. My phone light meter said that would be about a 5 minute exposure inside and about 30 seconds outside as it was cloudy. Roughly. Throughout the process the main issue I had was getting the shutter stopper thingy in the right place.
I wandered around my house and garden, as the government has requested and took a few photos.
Developed the film…
The film looks pink as it needed longer in the fix, or so a knowledgeable friend told me.
These are the results from my Diana Day.
I moved around in front of the camera on this shot. I even used a flash, but you can barely see me.
As always I am a bit disappointed with the pinhole results. I expected the shots to be much wider and sharper. I think this camera might be on my “to sell” list when all this is over. For the remaining shots I tried a few different settings.
The fisheye.
The 55mm with the flash.
The 55mm without the flash.
Yeah, I think I might sell this set-up. The film didn’t really help matters. The combination really isn’t my favourite. Hey, covid quiz…can you find the film numbers and kodak impressions from the paper on the photos?
Anyway, I much prefer Holga cameras to Lomography. I might sell this and use the money for a 120 Holga.
I had some Tri-X that showed the frames numbers and other backing-paper markings on the negatives. It was from a batch that Kodak had recalled (and I think re-funded buyers for), but I’d bought it as expired and second-hand so didn’t think they’d honour the refund in my case. 🙂
After spending some time and effort Photoshopping the marks from some photos taken with my Zeiss Mess-Ikonta, I decided that I’d just shoot the rest of the rolls with my Holga and accept the marks as being in keeping with the Holga “look”.
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Good to know. Seeing as I am stuck around my house, it will be no great loss to use it up here then. I only have one roll left.
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Well, I think these are interesting, And I’m always fascinated to see inside the houses of bloggers!
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I think you are going to see a lot of that in the near future 🙂
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Haha good point!
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