With a cherry on top.

In their first workshop ever in 2023, Photo Opp of Appleton held a gathering to celebrate Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, which has continued each spring. Pinhole Day this year occurs on April 26th. For the fourth time, I invite you to use one of my cameras to expose a roll of film, and develop and contact print it. 

For the first time, if that doesn't suit your style, if you bring a bodycap for your DSLR or Mirrorless camera, I will drill and install a pinhole for it. ASP-C SLRs do OK, full-frame SLRs are not bad, and mirrorless cameras are incredible. 

Sign up for the analog part at Photo Opp's website ($40) or just show up with the body cap from 11-5.

This makes me a little obsessive about providing reliable cameras. I recently held a similar event with ten high school kids, but still have that nagging concern that there might not be enough cameras. This, combined with a Cricut cutting machine, has led to a series of new Compact 30 cameras. I decided to use all 30mm, 90-degree cameras because that's what people expect from a pinhole camera. There'll be a few longer cameras available if you're curious about that.

Le Paquet Trente and The Badgersette I've written about before.

Most recently, I made three cameras at the same time to learn if there would be any benefit to scaling up parts making. It does a little bit, but I made them in spurts over about a two-week period, and customized the placement of the design, so I'm not sure if it was better than just doing them one at a time.

The red KitKat Ice Cream Bar and the blue Drumstick cameras were film-tested at the No Kings event last month.

The last one was made from several varieties of Häagen-Dazs ice cream bar cartons. The cherries are featured on the front because I liked the illustration.

Here's the test of that one. It was loaded and sat around for awhile, until this time-stamped sunbeam occurred one afternoon.

At least a 1:1 macro of some little orchids.

Occasionally, a winder breaks (@#!%&!!?!) and the little tab has to be removed from the spool. I needed a particularly narrow pair of needle-nose pliers to accomplish that. The beading pliers by itself was not in stock at Michael's and required a shipping fee. This set of five was in stock for only twice as much and included some nifty calipers to measure things.

Nobody likes it when a tomato gets lippy with you when you're peeling it.

A bouy by the bay.

Gnarly roots next to where I left my bicycle.

The interesting sky is what led me out. They have installed a wind-indicating banner atop a flexible rod on the dock in Millers Bay. In my series of protest events, flags were always interesting time-smeared elements. I knew a black flag in front of white clouds was more of a challenge than white on a darker field, but tried anyway. I made several placement adjustments and waited for consistent wind that might hold the flag in place. It seems I opened both pinholes for an over-and-under double exposure. Looks like it might have captured the flag OK.

Better luck with three flags at one time, a few meters down at the boat ramps.




Navigational aids.

The last remains of the ice shoves.

The geometric stairwell and elevator shaft on the side of the Water Treatment Plant.

The neoclassical boulevard of Washington Avenue.

The Cherryo has two .23mm pinholes, on the axis and 11mm above it, 30mm from a 6x6cm frame. The film was Kentmere 400 semistand developed in the same old bottle of Rodinal, 1:100.