Re: Pinhole and SLR

[George L Smyth <GLSmyth@xxxxxxx>]

Wayde Allen wrote:
> 
> > a hole much smaller than 0.2mm which will significantly degrade
> > resolution.
> 
> Looks like a 0.2mm hole is OK with an optimum hole size of 0.3mm.  In
> fact, this would be too small of a hole.  Hand drilling the hole to 0.3mm
> will be tough enough I imagine.

It depends upon what formula one uses to determine the size of the
pinhole - my chart gives me 0.23mm, so we're in the same ballpark. 
Making a hole this small is not really much of a problem.  As a matter
of fact, I made one (0.20mm) just a couple of days ago for a film
cannister camera.

george

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