daisuke nakabayashi

Hi folks,

<br><br>As for a hand held compact 4X5 camera, I've made a pinhole

camera out of an old Graflex cut film magazine (predecessor to the Grafmatic).

Focal length is 40mm, f/256, the camera is really no bigger than a stack of film

holders. Some pictures of the camera and results <a href="http://justdai.com/

Images/temp/phcamera.html"> here.</a>

<br><br>Although the interior test shots were made with a tripod (testing out

angle of view, exposure, etc.), most of my shots with this camera have been

hand held. I load it with HP5 metered at 3200 - exposure is about 1/2 to 3

seconds in bright sunlight. Since it is a very wide angle pinhole camera, you

don't need a range/view finder... it's more like a point and shoot than anything

else.

<br><br>Dai.

Hi Ed, I too was at the Lee Friedlander exhibit at the Fraenkel Gallery in San

Francisco last year. He was there for the opening last night, and had a

considerable crowd a the gallery. Although I did not get the chance to talk to

him, he carried a black Hexar RF with a silver VC 35/2.5 Classic mounted to

it...

Hi Al,

<br><br>

I used a large format lens shutter for the aperture for a camera obscura

installation that made a few years ago. Since I did not know before hand how

the weather will be (it was in San Francisco), I decided to use the iris/aperture

of a shutter to adjust the opening. This worked well since it also

demonstrated how the size of the opening affected the sharpness of the

image in relation to the amount of light it let in. I used a Compur #1 lens

shutter (same size as Copal #1) with the lenses removed. <br><br>

Here some images I took inside the installation: <a href="http://justdai.com/

wppd04/index.html">http://justdai.com/wppd04/index.html</a>