From: Pam Niedermayer (pam_pine@cape.com)
Date: 05/08/00-06:35:13 PM Z
At the Magic of Pinhole site
(http://www.stanford.edu/~cpatton/pinhole.html) there are
instructions for making your own zone plates, involves
printing a target at a certain size, then photographing it
at a certain distance.
Pam
Sandy King wrote:
>
> 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
-- Pamela G. Niedermayer Pinehill Softworks Inc. 1221 S. Congress Ave., #1225 Austin, TX 78704 512-416-1141 512-416-1440 fax http://www.pinehill.com
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