These are both well- and poorly- documented online. It's such a simple product, there's not much to say about it, but if you're a terminally OCD shopper like I am, it's really hard to find the deets you crave.
But it's fall, that narrow window of photographic opportunity that I vainly promise won't pass me by every year. I decided to make the leap, rather than study the photo forums for another six months.
So I called Zeb Andrews at Blue Moon Camera in Portland, Oregon. Zeb, Danielle Hughson, and Scott Speck seem to be the tip of the pinhole spear on Flickr.
Zeb talked me down from a couple of ledges: Specifically, is the cable release adapter worth it, and how dramatically different are the angles of view between the 6x6 and 6x9 cameras? His answers are "no" and "not very." I haven't had the camera long enough to speak to those issues myself, but if Zeb, et al, get along okay with the basic camera, who am I to argue?
Topic for another post: Why doesn't Asheville, which considers itself an art mecca, have someone like Zeb and a store like Blue Moon? All due respect to our camera shops (both of them), but one no longer carries cameras, and the other . . . well, that's an old story.
Anyway, here are images from the first roll. Thanks Zeb!
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Pinhole is a lot of fun. My winter project this year will be to make a 10 x 16 pinhole camera. This summer I was in a business meeting and documents were printed on 11x17 paper. I don't remember the meeting but it dawned on me that these were lovely proportions for a photograph. Being not rich, I'll make something of similar proportions using the new 16x20 positive paper instead of film (and the occasional paper negative, too.) And the ratio of the sides is, of course, 1.6:1... :)
Mike
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