Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "Jim Brick" <jim_brick@agilent.com> > The problem with pinhole photography, other than the fact that it produces > pinhole photographs, is that someone might see your pinhole photograph and > see your name with it as well. You will forever more be branded as a > pinhead. Your business will fail, your banks will call in their loans, your > car will quit, your dog will leave, I won't mention anything about your > wife or girlfriend. A lifetime of misery will set in. All because you > displayed a pinhole photograph with your name on it. > Jim Damn Jim, you sure can deflate a baloon, just when I was beginning to warm up to the idea of pin holes. On a more serious -but not necessarily reverent - note, I fail to see why people who buy the highest quality (and expensive) cameras and lenses in the world are driven to produce the most mediocre photographs. I am an enthusiastic experimenter but I will pass on Daguerrotype, smear-on-the-emulsion-in-the-field glass plates, and aah... pinholes. Joe