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Re: [OM] tripod & pinhole

Subject: Re: [OM] tripod & pinhole
From: "Ian M. Stewart" <ims@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:33:44 +0100
 Peter Leyssens had a fabulous idea!  :-

> Something completely else : I've turned my OM-3 into a pinhole camera.
> I've made a large hole in a body cover.  This I covered with aluminum.
> In the aluminum there's a hole of 0.1mm, which turns my OM-3 into a +/-
> f500 pinhole camera :-)  Exposures of 8 seconds up to 45 minutes, but
> the effects are really cool.  I've made a picture of a room, but right
> in front of the camera I put a plug for the electricity outlet.  So now,
> there's a HUGE plug in this picture !  As with pinhole camera's, this
> plug is exactly as sharp as the rest of the picture.  Completely weird !
> 
> My next project will be an OM-1 pinhole.  I want to lock up the mirror
> (hence the OM-1) and put the pinhole halfway into the mirrorbox for the
> wide-angle effect.

Wow!!  Now I have a real use for my spare OM10 body.  I know it 
doesn't have the same metering or mirror lock up, but I do have a 
locking cable release and can guess the exposure near enough.

--
Ian  <IMS>
                  OM Tyro - please point my lens in the right direction.
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