Re: Pinhole and SLR

[boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Long)]

On Fri, 30 May 1997 18:44:13 +0100 (BST), Joe B. wrote:

|What I'd like to try sometime, ideally on a view camera so that there =
would
|be no problem with a reflex mirror hitting it- is making a pinhole that
|could come quite close to the film plane- much closer than a pinhole =
mounted
|on an SLR body cap could. It would be on bellows and so in theory I'd =
have a
|zoom pinhole. Then I could check the coveage indoors with some high
|intensity lights and calibrate it so I have an idea what it covers at =
what
|bellows extension, and then just use a separate viewfinder of some sort =
for
|framing the picture in normal light levels. Well it's an idea...

If you used a Speed Graphic and mounted the pinhole diaphragm on a
regular Graphic lens mounting board, the sports finder should show you
what it will include, no?

Sounds intriguing.  Maybe I'll drag the Speed Graphic out of mothballs
for the first time in years...

Bob Long
(boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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