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Grex Photography Item 2: Books on the Classics
Entered by dadroc on Wed Apr 5 16:22:33 UTC 1995:

Books on the Classics

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#1 of 13 by dadroc on Wed Apr 5 16:39:04 1995:

This item is for the title, location and call number of good photography books.
Please no junk...This is a reference for nice stuff, no drift please.

Edward Steichen "A life in Photography", published by Doubleday & Company, 1963
David Douglas Duncan "Self-Portrait:USA" Published by Harry N. Abrams, inc.
1969 Yousuf Karsh "Karsh Portfolio", University of Toronto Press, 1967 Brassi
"Paris by Night", Pantheon Books, 1987" The Daguerreotype, A Sesquicentennial
Celebration" Edited by John Wood, University of Iowa Press, 1989

Titles that should be here include Imogen Cunningam, Weston, Brandt, Mike
Meyers, Southworth and Hawes and Eisenstaedt just to name a few...Speaking of
the big E

Alfred Eisenstaedt "Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt" Abbeville Press, 1985

#2 of 13 by dadroc on Wed Apr 5 16:44:48 1995:

For the Pinhole Fan, John H. Hammond, "The Camera Obscura" Adam Hilger Ltd,
1981 This is not a photo book, but a chronicle of the camera Obscura through
time, the mother of the mechanical part of the camera as we know it.

#3 of 13 by mcpoz on Thu Apr 6 00:52:25 1995:

Your offering for the pinhole fan - I have made some neat, soft photos using
homemade pinhole cameras and 4x5 b&w sheet film.  Anyone else try this?
It had incredible depth of field, must have been f250 or something like that.
. 
scan

#4 of 13 by dadroc on Tue Apr 11 18:31:53 1995:

Call me Doctor Pinhole, I can make 'em and use 'em. But, view Cameras are
better for depth of field, swings and tilts can be used to get things in
focus better.

I have more reference and such, 

Pinhole Journal, Published by Pinhole Resource, 
Star Route 15, Box 1355
San Lorenzo, NM 88041

Write for many products and prices.

#5 of 13 by mcpoz on Wed Apr 12 00:29:16 1995:

Hey thanks.  I have made (very) crude pinhole cameras and used aluminum 
foil for the lens.  I felt this gave me a sharp, tiny, round hole via
a sewing needle pierce.  Tape on a flap and you are ready to go.

Has anyone tried strange geometries?  how about multiple pinholes, or slits?

Thanks Dr. Pinhole for the info on the Pinhole Journal.

#6 of 13 by dadroc on Wed Apr 12 14:49:19 1995:

You are just catching up to the norm in Pinhole Journal, Your lens sux though.
The Official technique is thus>>
  1. Cut out blanks out of .010 brass shim stock (available at machine shops).
  2. Dimple the place where the pinhole is to be with a pin and tack hammer.
  3. Using a white stone grind the dimple off, use olive oil.
  4. Mesure the hole with drills from the hobby shop, they are very consistant
     and available down to #80.
  5. Make many blanks.
  6. Using a microscope pick the one that is closest to your diameter, and
     the one that is most round.

  5.1 (oops) Make many pinholes using the above method.

Hope this works, this is from a Sky and Telescope method from the 1980's, still
the best, and based on NASA work.

#7 of 13 by mcpoz on Wed Apr 12 21:51:37 1995:

Thanks again.  I've copied your instructions and will try them on my next
photo outing.

#8 of 13 by dadroc on Thu Apr 13 15:46:49 1995:

More occures to me, Find an Encyclopedia of Photography, they have several
pages on the pinhole, including a neat Coffee Can Camera where the can is used
as  the developer chamber. Search on Pinhole and National Geographic, they have
several fine photo essays including Fly Eye cameras. Our Patron Saint is  Bill
Brandt, noting like a Pinhole Nude against the white cliffs of Dover to get the
creative thoughts going...

#9 of 13 by mcpoz on Thu Apr 13 21:46:06 1995:

Hey! A fly Eye Camera ! ! ! !  Now there is a thought that really gets
the creative mind going.  Is this actually using a lens from a fly eye?

#10 of 13 by dadroc on Fri Apr 14 15:52:16 1995:

I forget the actual way it was done, but the effect was nice, like one of 
those spiratione faceted filters...When the japanese cameras got to expensive
to buy and feed lenses the real photographers found the pinhole, get back
to the basics. The shots I find truely wild are found pinholes, gunshots in
walls, rusted through walls, cave openings and other such found pinholes, all
it takes is a shutter and a sheet of film...One of my faves was a 18 wheeler
with a 1/8 hole in the side, the guy hung the film with duct tape, used duct
tape for the shutter, and kept tanks of chemicals in the truck, he parked it
where he wanted to take a pictues. Nice use of local materials. Can you 
imagine the Cop pulling up to find out why the rig is parked so funny--'ah
just wanted the stream in the foreground...Improves the 'spective.

#11 of 13 by denise on Sat Jul 12 20:29:50 1997:

In trying to revive an old item... Does anyone have any more good book and/or
magazines/jpurnals to recommend on photography??  So far, all of my picture
taking has been just 'experimentation'/gut feeling work... I'd like to find
some ideas/inspirations to other photography/work/themes/whatever. Ideas?

#12 of 13 by vrondi on Fri Jan 1 21:10:11 1999:

regarding #11:  There is often food for thought in  the magazine "American
Photo"  also, for nuts and bolts stuff, look through "Popular Photography."
Both are magazines you can get at many news stands.
   Pinhole cameras:  I made a pinhole camera out of an oatmeal box once.  IT
gave a very wide angle indeed, almost panoramic.  I got the entire front of
a building, from rather close up.

#13 of 13 by happyboy on Fri Jan 1 22:46:45 1999:

Weegee's New York.

get it and read it.

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