any photographers around ?any ideas about
where to get a cheap manual camera and how to convert it to take colour pinhole images on film ?
for all those non photographers just think about porn
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connor, Tue 12 Apr 2005, 0:38,
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my brother got a 1980stop of the range manual camera from jessops for about £80. How you convert it i haven't got a fucking clue.
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asparagus time Is in Brazil., Tue 12 Apr 2005, 0:40,
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Stick a pin in your eye........ and attach an RJ45 directly to your optic nerve.
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Lord_Floaty Hooting gladly., Tue 12 Apr 2005, 0:44,
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take off lens...but duct/duck/donkey spunk^H^H^H tape over the hole, stab center with pin.
Set Shutter speed to "B" or preferably "I" (though "B" is more common) then...
If you have "I": when you wind on, the "shutter plain" will lock open till you press the "shutter button"
If you have "B": you need to keep the Shutter button pressed until your exposure time has elapsed (bothersome) - if you get a cable release, some have a little knob on them, that will hold the shuter down till you un tighten it.
Edited to remove multipule uses of the word 'shutter' to describe different things.
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okdont know very much at all about manual cameras
but thanks for the advice
:)
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connor, Tue 12 Apr 2005, 1:11,
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OK...To take a photograph, you need to expose the film to enough light for it to work. The amount of light getting into the camera can be changed by opening the shutter for longer or shorter periods of time, and opening or closing the Iris - the appature (Also know as 'stopping' up or down).
A small appature (for some reason given a large 'f' number) means more of the pic is in focus. a wide appature, or small 'f' number means only the bit that you focus on (by mucking around with the lens) is crisp, and the rest is blured.
Now, with a pinhole camera your apature is fixed, and really small. so you don't really need to bother with trying to focus anything, cos a small appature means more will be in focus. What you need to do is open the shutter for long enough to get the light onto the film - with pin hole cameras this can take several mins. (Normall shutter speeds - the time shutters are open for - are between 1/30th and 1/500 of a second).
I really hope this hasn't been patronising but its just about all the theory you need to make an SLR work as a pin hole camera.
You will need to try out different exposure times (Bracketing as it s known in the trade) to get a good image.
Hope this helps...
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