Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/05

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Pinhole photos thru body cap?
From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:44:51 -0700
References: <3.0.5.32.20010323061203.00a73100@pacific.net.sg>

At 12:58 PM 4/5/01 -0500, Jim wrote:
>Has anyone made a pinhole lens by using the Leica M body cap with a small
>hole?  I am thinking of drilling a small hole in a body cap and then putting
>a smalll pierced piece of brass shim stock on the inside surface to make a
>35mm pinhole camera.
>When I tire of too much bokeh, then I can replace the "lens" with a regular
>lens.
>
>Jim

The problem with pinhole photographs is that they all look like pinhole
photographs. Whether Leica, Hasselblad, Holga, or Quaker Oat Tube.

Still a pinhole photograph.

Jim

ps... do they make UV filters for pinhole cameras?

Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Pinhole photos thru body cap?)
In reply to: Message from D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg> (Re: [Leica] FS: 90mm LENSES)