[alt-photo] Re: cameras - was Re: sizing options for color gum

[Gordon Holtslander]

What size of film do you use for your pinhole cameras?  I've been using 12x18 and 8x10.  Do you make your own cameras?

I just discovered there is a community maker/hacker lab here (Saskatoon) with a CNC (Command and Control) router people can use. 

A CNC router allows one to create a digital picture of the shape you want, and the CNC router cuts it out.  Much more accurate than making temples and cutting by hand.   I'm going to see if can make some very large format collapsible pinhole cameras  

Gord

----- Original Message -----
From: Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield at bellsouth.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 1:09 pm
Subject: [alt-photo] Re: sizing options for color gum
To: The alternative photographic processes mailing list <alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>

> I probably should add that a lot of my work is printed from 
> either pinhole or toy camera negatives, so edges are always a 
> bit on the  fuzzy side, anyway-- certainly not tack-sharp 
> with clearly defined edges.  I have made prints from lens-
> based cameras, of course, that are tack-sharp, and it still 
> seems to work fine.  If there's any mis-registration at all 
> (and I used to get that with pre-shrinking anyway), it's very 
> very slight and easily manipulated.  I'm not really sure 
> why that paper doesn't shrink -- makes me think that it's not 
> completely organic in some way-- but maybe cotton in papers 
> doesn't work the same as cotton in clothes. ??
> 
> 
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Peter Blackburn wrote:
> 
> >
> >Hmmm. I don't know if I've ever used the soft press Fab. That's 
> interestingthat it doesn't shrink for you. I'll have to order 
> some and try it.
> >
> >Peter
> 
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