2 posts tagged “pinhole photography”

Pinhole Kit

I have finally received the pinhole camera kit ordered a couple of weeks ago from retrophotographic. The camera is surprisingly small, and I managed to assemble it in a short period of time. Next weekend I will test it out hopefully, Bank Holiday weather permitting.

On the subject of photography, I decided to have a look around my local camera dealers that I have not visited for a while. They always used to stock a fairly good range of secondhand SLR film cameras as well as the odd medium format Bronica, something I have wanted since I was a teenager. I was on the look out for an old Canon AE1 which I am told is a suitable manual camera for shooting with infra-red film, something I have been wanting to try for a while now.

I was surprised to find when I walked in that the shop now stocked nothing but digital cameras, from the very cheap to the very, very expensive, and an impressive range of scanners, printers and expensive image manipulation software to go with them. I have nothing against digital but I am nostalgic for my teenage days spent in the College darkroom, under a red light, pouring chemiclas into dishes and watching the end product emerge. Somehow sitting at the computer manipulating images with a few clicks for the mouse don't have that authentic feeling of being "real photography". I must be growing old, well I am 48 next Tuesday!

This week has been quite hectic, most of it involving educational activities. On Monday it was off to the UEA for my psychosocial interventions course, then off to London on Tuesday and Wednesday for more training by Mindfields College in their "Human Givens" approach to psychotherapy. Then preparing a powerpoint presentation for the following week. A am a good example of "life long learning", I am approaching 48 and spending more time studying than I did when I was 16. Actually maybe there is a lesson here, if I had studied more when I was 16 I wouldn't still be doing it 32 years later!

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I see that Val on her blog Escape has been hanging around the local graveyards taking lots of photographs, Val's pictures are much more cheerful than mine though, lots of blue sky and green grass, nothing like my dour effort on the left. I have lots more of these and eventually will upload them here, most are on my other blog already.

On the subject of photography I have finally got around to ordering a nice low tech pinhole camera, I have been talking about getting one for months but never quite found the time to do it. The only thing is it comes in kit form so when it arrives I will have to build it myself. Should take me a few months to get around to that!