Chasing sunsets without lenses
Capturing sunsets with pinhole cameras can often be a bit touch-and-go for me. For one, I am really fond of keeping my pinhole cameras loaded with ISO 100 film, at the fastest. If you have a camera that is going to stretch out exposures no matter which speed of film you load in it, might as well embrace the slow nature and lean into it. But when the sun starts to drop around the curve of the Earth, those long exposures can rapidly stretch out. And if you are not on top of it, it is easy enough to get into a situation where you are losing light faster than the camera is collecting it. Your exposures run away from you, especially given reciprocity failure. Even if you have enough light, those same exposures will still take a minute, and likely several, meaning your tripod is tied up. It becomes a decision, invest in the pinhole exposure at the expense of all my other cameras, or forego the pinhole to make several other exposures on my Hasselblad, Holga or Pentax 67.
This sunset really wasn't all that bad though. I think my exposure on the pinhole was only about two minutes and the color lingered long enough that I was able to make this one pinhole exposure and then quickly switch over to my Hasselblad. Or maybe I did that the other way around... I cannot exactly recall. Anyway, I managed two photos of this sunset at least and this pinhole image was one of them.
Zero Image 2000
Kodak Ektar 100
Chasing sunsets without lenses
Capturing sunsets with pinhole cameras can often be a bit touch-and-go for me. For one, I am really fond of keeping my pinhole cameras loaded with ISO 100 film, at the fastest. If you have a camera that is going to stretch out exposures no matter which speed of film you load in it, might as well embrace the slow nature and lean into it. But when the sun starts to drop around the curve of the Earth, those long exposures can rapidly stretch out. And if you are not on top of it, it is easy enough to get into a situation where you are losing light faster than the camera is collecting it. Your exposures run away from you, especially given reciprocity failure. Even if you have enough light, those same exposures will still take a minute, and likely several, meaning your tripod is tied up. It becomes a decision, invest in the pinhole exposure at the expense of all my other cameras, or forego the pinhole to make several other exposures on my Hasselblad, Holga or Pentax 67.
This sunset really wasn't all that bad though. I think my exposure on the pinhole was only about two minutes and the color lingered long enough that I was able to make this one pinhole exposure and then quickly switch over to my Hasselblad. Or maybe I did that the other way around... I cannot exactly recall. Anyway, I managed two photos of this sunset at least and this pinhole image was one of them.
Zero Image 2000
Kodak Ektar 100