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Last year I bought a wooden pinhole camera made by a Slovenian company called Ondu during a Kickstarter campaign. It's taken me several months to take the thing out for some practice in preparation for work pinhole photography day on Sunday April 26th.
Like most pinhole cameras there is no viewfinder, and the lines on the top and side of the camera that are supposed to help you line up your shot are a bit hit and miss. It's difficult to know how far to hold your head from the camera in order for the lines to give you something approaching the correct field of view.
These shots all include fa far wider field of view than I thought I was going to get so it seems I had me head in the wrong position!
Seeing the frame numbers on through the extremely dark red windows on the back of the camera is also a bit of a challenge. (But I think I’ve worked out how many turns to give the film advance know for each format so in future I’ll be counting turns of the knob rather that using the nearly useless red windows.
And getting the exposure right is another challenge. I think these are mostly rather under-exposed, though I quick like the dark and mysterious atmosphere this gives.
But despite all that I like these photograph enough to persevere.
The camera can be set of for 6x6, 6x9 (as seen here) and 6x12cm frames and I've already shot a couple more films in different formats. Also looking forward to trying out black and white film in this camera.
The film for all these shots is long out-of-date Fujicolor 160 NPS.
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Last year I bought a wooden pinhole camera made by a Slovenian company called Ondu during a Kickstarter campaign. It's taken me several months to take the thing out for some practice in preparation for work pinhole photography day on Sunday April 26th.
Like most pinhole cameras there is no viewfinder, and the lines on the top and side of the camera that are supposed to help you line up your shot are a bit hit and miss. It's difficult to know how far to hold your head from the camera in order for the lines to give you something approaching the correct field of view.
These shots all include fa far wider field of view than I thought I was going to get so it seems I had me head in the wrong position!
Seeing the frame numbers on through the extremely dark red windows on the back of the camera is also a bit of a challenge. (But I think I’ve worked out how many turns to give the film advance know for each format so in future I’ll be counting turns of the knob rather that using the nearly useless red windows.
And getting the exposure right is another challenge. I think these are mostly rather under-exposed, though I quick like the dark and mysterious atmosphere this gives.
But despite all that I like these photograph enough to persevere.
The camera can be set of for 6x6, 6x9 (as seen here) and 6x12cm frames and I've already shot a couple more films in different formats. Also looking forward to trying out black and white film in this camera.
The film for all these shots is long out-of-date Fujicolor 160 NPS.