From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 05/08/00-07:22:25 PM Z
On Tue, 9 May 2000, 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.
Actually I was thinking of the zone plate pinhole prints by a onetime
student of Sam Wang's that I saw in The Pinhole Journal. So either I
generalized from the particular mistakenly, or what to me looked "soft
and distorted" wasn't -- or anyway not to someone else !
Judy
>
> 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.
>
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> Sandy King
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> >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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