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From: "Don Roberts" <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx>
Very interesting technique, Guy. I would like to see a more detailed
description if available.
Don,
I've used the camera and that technique quite a bit, with varying degrees of
success (from very good to very bad). In one of the more interesting
application, I used it for a project inspired our own "Pass The Camera
Project" seven years ago.
The project was titled "The Flying Pinhole Camera" and there is a very
detailed description of the camera and the technique at the following URL:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/guy.glorieux/flyingpinhole.htm
It involved shipping the camera to a group of pinhole photography friends
around the planet. Each would make three overlapping exposures and then
send it to the next person on the list. The web site goes into a fair
amount of detail. It shows the full picture and the contribution from each
participant. Two friends actually had the camera upside down when shooting
so that there is a couple of inversions...!!
The principle was that of winding the film only part of the way through the
frame such that the space normally occupied by a single 6x9 frame on the
neagtive was actually covered by three separate exposures (1/3, 1/3, 1/3).
Since we were seven and there are eight 6x9 frames on a 120 film, I opened
the film and closed after it had made full circle around the earth. The
negative was contact printed at first to make a 6x72mm picture. Later on, I
had the negative scanned and a huge 10" x 12-feet digital print was made
which was shown in a number of gallery exhibition.
Best,
Guy
