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Post by spinno on Sept 4, 2024 16:20:11 GMT
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Post by zx9 on Sept 4, 2024 17:15:39 GMT
Nice rocks.
I like the beach long shot too, almost two shots in one frame but it works well.
Composition with a 13 x 36 frame does need a lot of thinking about which is part of the appeal of me as it is out of my 9x16, 4x3 or 5x4 comfort zone (s).
The toy camera may be the way to go, no technicalities to think about.  |
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Post by zx9 on Sept 4, 2024 17:35:26 GMT
I couldn't find a picture I was thinking of for yesterday's daily theme "flat" but had another look today and decided to try the XPAN crop ratio on it. Usually for panoramas I take [hand held] overlapping frames, stitch them and then crop to 16:9. This is almost the full frame width, I did some perspective correction which squeezed the bottom in "as shot". Would have been good to have been able to use a bit of tilt  274A0781.jpg by Pete, on Flickr As an image it works well for me. I have and still do similar in PC crops for images that I did not think in the wide format as well as for those images that I composed in an imagined 13x36 crop viewfinder.
This is probably my most recent deliberate placing of subject matter in the 13x36 crop. |
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Post by zx9 on Sept 4, 2024 17:38:41 GMT
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Post by petrochemist on Sept 4, 2024 20:45:02 GMT
I seem to remember one of my ancient folding 120 film cameras, shoots in 6x14. Though I've yet to try it  So far the only panoramas I've shot have been stitched ones using MS ICE, with quite a range of aspect ratios. IIRC this one was using 5 portrait shots, taken without the benefit of a viewfinder (the IR filter completely blocked the view)  Infra red Panorama by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr |
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Post by zx9 on Oct 12, 2024 15:59:20 GMT
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Post by zou on Oct 12, 2024 19:23:44 GMT
I've heard some YouTubers have loaded it film wrong way around. But I've also seen great results from those, so looking forward to seeing what you do with it. First pinhole camera? |
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Post by zx9 on Oct 12, 2024 22:06:33 GMT
I've heard some YouTubers have loaded it film wrong way around. But I've also seen great results from those, so looking forward to seeing what you do with it. First pinhole camera? Yes my first pinhole camera not made from a Pringles pot and loaded with printing paper. The home made ones were fun and very random but the one shot per camera was not great. I am thinking that this will be more predictable for lofi city centre long exposures, we shall see. |
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Post by zx9 on Oct 22, 2024 17:45:09 GMT
First film from the 617 now processed and drying, just shot in the local area and of nothing special but a good learning exercise.
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Post by zou on Oct 22, 2024 20:45:52 GMT
First film from the 617 now processed and drying, just shot in the local area and of nothing special but a good learning exercise. You've got the rise option haven't you? |
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Post by zx9 on Oct 23, 2024 8:31:49 GMT
First film from the 617 now processed and drying, just shot in the local area and of nothing special but a good learning exercise. You've got the rise option haven't you? Yes, been the earlier version mine has effectively rise and fall, the current version has three pinholes adding central position. Part of the experimenting was getting an idea of how much the rise and fall effected the image position, as yet I find the horizontal field of view to be much easier to gauge than the vertical FOV. I will post a couple of shots later. |
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Post by zx9 on Oct 23, 2024 12:42:11 GMT
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Post by zou on Oct 23, 2024 14:51:35 GMT
Trying to remember, is it a curved film plane?
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Post by zx9 on Oct 23, 2024 15:27:50 GMT
Trying to remember, is it a curved film plane? Yes it is and a pig to load because of it. Yet another improvement on the current version is a removable film insert!
What I have learned:
The Pinhole assistant Ap on iPhone is very useful for exposure calculation including as it does RLF compensation and having camera presets for hundreds of commercial pinhole cameras. It has a count down timer and logs exposure and location data which would have been great had I worked out how to store info yesterday.
The camera is more like 6x18 but who cares. The frame spacing is massive- cool. The Ilford frame numbers on the backing paper are very difficult to see - I was warned about that but as I have half a dozen rolls of outdated FP4+ in store will have to live with it. Exposure times are shorter than I expected, using black card as a shutter is ok for a 4 second exposure but I would like longer times to get more subject movement. FP4+ can be rated at 32 and processed in Xtol so that is the plot for my next roll. I also have a couple of boxes of Portra 400 which might have to be a rainy day at dusk in the West End, that sounds like it has potential.
So much to think about, which is good.
Edit: The curved film plane does some odd distortions when you get close. Think Bill Brandt's nudes, somehow I don't think that is going to happen.
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Post by zx9 on Oct 24, 2024 17:00:02 GMT
The negs print very nicely, actually much nicer than they look on the laptop screen. Postcard size is very cute, printed to A4 on the long side works well enough to the framed.
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