Pinhole Machine in the Field

It’s not a Pinball Machine. And a photo above is a Japanese maple !
As I explained in the Previous post, it is a combined / selectable Pinhole.
Single Pinhole, Multiple Pinholes and a Concentric-Double-Density Pinhole
were all in one panel, with or without a Wide-angle Front Lens.

Those were taken by the Concentric-DD pinhole.

They too, by the DD pinhole with the typical radiating halation.

And those images were taken by the Multiple (4) Pinholes.
If you carefully check the photo, you will find the 4 repeated images.
And DD pinhole image again. (Some years ago I made similar image !)

In the same time same subject but by the Multiple Pinholes.

Taken by a single pinhole though, with a very slow shutter speed =
camera was shaken, bird has moved = hence utterly blurry image. 🙂


Still, they were the very painterly images which I wanted.

By the DD Pinhole.

Last moment of sun hit the Single Pinhole and created
fantastic diffraction pattern.

Single Pinhole with half a second shutter speed = camera shake. 😀

And this image —– 1.6 second exposure.
(I would rather say, not too bad for a hand-held shot !)
I think, the Lens (?) worked well for the purpose to produce
impressionists like / painterly image ! 🙂
(You must have seen the most unusable photos here though,
if you like to have so-called good photo, use Phone-camera.)
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Focus Shift (C) at Somerset House
——- (this photo above was made accidentally = overlapped with wrong image.)
This was almost the first field test of the Focus-shift photography ( while driving
lens’ AF motor automatically) —– There were several attempt to do the same by
manually rotating the focus before. But, manual operation creates too much
blur and the success rate was rather low. (So, this is a long standing project.)
Thanks to the lens I used, Canon EFS 18~55mm, I could use the lens from 24mm
to 55mm. Though, the wider the lens, the image-size changes more, and creating
funny image. (= I’m not happy at all = to counter this problem, I did the Focus shift
together with adjusting the zoom ring to keep image position the same.)
So that, unless I found the remedy, this technique is not matured enough.
And the subject this time was not suite for the technique. — it seems that
“Two Element Homemade Lens” does better job. 🙂
(—– on the point of creating painterly, impressionistic image.)
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