Too bad there's no retrofocus pinholes so you could get a really wide angle...
;-) tOM
On Friday, May 30, 2003 at 8:36
Joshua Putnam <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom Albright wrote:
> > Anybody ever done this?
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2932027480&category=30077
> >
> > I doesn't exaclty look "pinhole", more like a little slab of glass. Can't
> > tell. I could save money with a $10 body cap and some smart work with a
> > dremel tool, though.
>
> I have a pinhole body cap on one of my OM-4 bodies right now. I
> used copper sheet and a silk pin (extra-fine, extra-sharp pins
> used for sewing with fine silk). Works great but I don't have any
> scans from it.
>
> I built it as a demo in my photography class, so the students
> would all be able to build their own if they could find an extra
> body cap. Plus it's an SLR pinhole, unlike the pinhole cameras we
> were making from cardboard boxes, so they could see the image on
> the ground glass. (Needs a focusing hood to see well with that
> dim an image, but it does work.)
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