Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like pin-hole cameras, but cannot fathom using a pin-hole on 35mm film. I taught photography to all three of my boys by starting them out on pinhole shoebox cameras that they made themselves. We took paper negatives, about 5x7 inches,then contact printed them. I still have some beautiful still lifes that they took. But you do not enlarge pin-hole images. The sharpness just isn't there. So unless you like to look at 35mm contact prints, a pin-hole on a Leica seems like a real waste of time and film (not to mention a waste of $200 (!!!) for a silly contraption that happens to fit a Leica) Gary >In case you did not know: there is a pin hole 'lens' for the M on the >market, made by Avenon in Japan. The opening is approx f/125 or 250 (that >is stopping down 7x or 8x from f/11) and the price (in Germany) around US$ >200. At least that is what the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says today. >You may prefer to drill a hole in the body cap........ > >-- >christer almqvist >eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 >14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58 > > >