From: Mark (marks6@earthlink.net)
Date: 03/21/02-10:48:19 PM Z
A couple of years ago my daughter did a pinhole school project and ended up
making 2 pinhole cameras. We used the cannister from a roll of 35mm film
as a lens barrel, and mounted pinholes (made out of soda can aluminium) in
the caps so that we could experiment with different size holes. Camera #1
was an oatmeal box type in which we used 4x5 sheet film, and the second
camera was a more elaborate affair that used 120 roll film. We used
standard films (I think it was FP4), and developed them traditionally in
D-76 - all this was well within the abilities of a 10 year old, and the
photochemicals are pretty benign. For the roll film, normal daylight
cannisters were used - the trickiest part for her was winding the film on
the spools, and for the 4x5 we used BTZS tubes.
She got a couple of very good photos at acadia national park, scenes of
rocky coastline with surf in very foggy conditions - the softness of the
subject worked great with the softness of the pinhole.
At 01:14 PM 3/20/02 -0900, you wrote:
>Tommorrow on stage noon to 3pm
>
>i foolishly complained about the quality of art and science education in
>local elementary schools and now I find myself teaching to 7-10 year olds...
>
>tomorrows topic building a pinhole camera out of an Oatmeal Container (and
>shooting photopaper in them)
>
>Blue Print Photograms
>
>(and hopefully) Blue Print Images from my Zone VI 4 x 5 and Deardorff 8 x 10
>and perhaps my Galvin 2 x 3 and Busch Pressman 2 x 3...
>
>what is the fast and easy way to process standard blue print paper in a
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