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.
