Pinhole images - Pinrette

A few shots taken in my hometown with the Beirette camera, which was converted into a pinhole camera. The film used is a very expired Ilford (hence the noticeable grains) I bought years ago and it was processed using the homemade PaRodinal developer.

More Caffenol results

For this time I've used some 60's expired Ilford Cine Film and my pinhole camera. The test came out much better than the previous caffenol results I had... I guess I'm getting used to the recipe! 

Here's what I've done for this time, In the given order I've diluted each ingredient in water for a 350ml solution:

19g - Washing Soda

05g - Vitamin C

03g - Iodized Salt

14g - Walmart own brand instant coffee

I let the solution with 20 degrees but I have to remember next time do at 17, this is because when you add the washing soda the solution increases 3 degrees.

I processed de film for 15 minutes gently agitating continuously for the first 30 seconds, then 3x every minute.

Gakken - Japanese Stereo Pinhole

A few pictures taken from my last holidays in Brazil with the Gakken Japanese Pinhole camera using the panoramic mode. The city scapes were taken in São Paulo and the last nine shots were taken in the town of Paraty  Rio de Janeiro, where the Paraty em Foco photography event is held every year.

Films are Jessops Diamond and the Kirkland made by Agfa, they're both expired.

Beirette Pinhole Camera

Back in action with my DIY Beirette Pinhole Camera, and this time is for  a more comprehensive series of tests.

Walking around the Soho area I spot this lovely Mini in stunning condition !

The exposure time from 1 to 4 seconds and processed with Rodinal 1 hour 1:100 stand development.

Gakken - Japanese Stereo Pinhole

I had this toy on my wish list for ages and I finally got my hands on ! This is a DIY 35 mm Stereo Pinhole Camera made by Gakken, a pretty cool magazine in Japan where each issue comes with a different kit to assemble.

I'm quite impressed with quality of the kit, you don't need to understand Japanese and all you have to do is follow the pictures. I thought it was easy to put all the pieces together, everything fits well and as a result I got a really well made plastic camera with a cool design. The stereo viewer is the downside as the tapes provided were not good enough to keep the lens in place.

The camera has two modes: the stereo and the panoramic. I've already got a stereo camera so I took most of the shots with the pan mode, and I love it... I really recommend, specially if you want to try stereo photography. Most of the good stereo cameras are quite expensive and you might pay over £150.00 for a good one. I know there's been some plastic stereo cameras around (Loreo and Holga) for a reasonable price but I don't think you have the option to do both formats, besides the DIY fun and design are unique.

The picture below was the only one I took using the stereo format and later transformed into anaglyph file, in that way you can still see the 3D effect using a pair of red and cyan glasses.

My DIY chart with the exposure times that my Japanese friend kindly translated.

Beirette Pinhole Camera

This is the Beirette camera that arrived faulty, I thought it would be less hassle to do something with it than send it back to the seller ( he didn't believe it was faulty and just gave me a partial refund...). Anyway, I bought another Beirette and with the body of the faulty one I built the "Pinrette".

I basically took the lens and shutter out and placed a black piece of cardborad where the lens used to be, with the pinhole of course. I used the pinhole camera design site http://www.mrpinhole.com/calcpinh.php in order to get the focal lengh and angle of view desired, the rest is intuition.

 

I spent a roll of Kodak 125 Plus X trying different exposures and I'm happy with the first results, these ones were about 4 seconds exposure. The pictures are boring as they were taken from my window but I quite like the wide angle and the soft focus.