Month: May 2021

Wandering in the forest

I must say I love going for a walk in the forest or more generally in the countryside. For this little series, it was at the end of the first locked down from March to May 2020. There was still restrictions, we couldn’t go more than 100km from our place. Since my parents lived about 200km away, we decided to meet in the middle. luckily there’s a beautiful region at this place called Perche. So we spent the day walking in a beautiful forest. I think it was also one of the first time I took out my Rolleiflex, and I’m quite pleased with the result.

Do pinhole have vignetting ?

So the answer to the question should obviously be ‘yes’. But, and there’s always a but, you can make the vignetting so strong that it turns to a frame. Here we have a couple of example. How to get such a result ? I took a bakelite camera like a photax. Removed the lens, and replace it with a pinhole. That is a very simple process. You have within less than an hour a pinhole 6×8 with a fully functional shutter. And you can even use a release cable. Ok you have to re-spool the film 120 film on the proper 620 core, that’s the painful part. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a core in the camera you buy, so buy two in order to have enough. Or you can remove matter on a 120, both work. Ok back to the original topic. The specificity of this camera is that the lens is mounted on a helicoid that you need to fully unscrew so that the lens is at the right distance both for focal plane, and to give full coverage of the 6×8 mask. If like me you forget to do that, you’ll end up with a weird frame on your picture. I think I have given up trying to think about it and will just compose with that in mind.