From: Sandy King (sanking@hubcap.clemson.edu)
Date: 05/09/00-06:09:40 AM Z
Perhaps Sam Wang will comment on this. He has done some very
beautiful work with zone plates (including a very nice portrait of
this person!), and has also made his own zone plates.
I agree with Kerik's statement that zone plates have "a very soft,
glowing look, with kind of an internal sharpness." I find that they
have a very distinctive appearance, especially in color, to me very
different from that of pinhole photography.
Sandy King
>FYI - Here is a zone plate image:
>
>http://www.jps.net/kerik/img138.htm
>
>I haven't done alot of Zone plate work, but I haven't noticed the
>"distortion" that Judy described. Definitely a very soft, glowing
>look, with kind of an "internal" sharpness, for lack of a better
>term. You can get zone plates in various focal lengths from the
>pinhole resource. They are more difficult to "DIY" than a pinhole.
>
>Kerik Kouklis
>www.Kerik.com
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