I am also be interested in info on pinholes for Nikons. I want to drill a hole in the body cap of an FM2, but don't know the depth of field from the cap to the film plane to determine the f stop.
Mike -- On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:44:07 Ed Nazarko wrote: >I've not done pinhole with the d100, but I did try a Finney Pinhole cap >made for Nikon, with both an F3 and an F100. With the F3, which is >aperture priority, the automatic DID work - I got great exposures in >many different types of light. With the F100 it didn't. > >I was not at all happy with the sharpness or clarity of the images >however. Much worse than I'd expected given past experience with >hand-drilled pinholes and home-made 35mm cameras. > >Would be interested in the size pinhole you tried. I'll get the info >off of the Finney pinhole and share it. > >____________________________________________ >Ed Nazarko > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ??????? >[mailto:pinhole-discussion-admin@p at ???????] On Behalf Of Gary Nored >Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:01 PM >To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??????? >Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Pinholes for D100 > >On 29 Jan 2003, at 10:11, CRABBE Heidi S wrote: > >> Just got a couple of Nikon D100 digital cameras at work and wanted to >> have a go at doing some digital pinholes. >> Can anyone give me any tips about how to go about it? > >A friend of mine and I just did this last night. We: >(1) drilled a hole in the 'lenscap' (one you can use to > protect the camera when no lens is installed.) >(2) Drilled the smallest hole we could in a aluminum > from a soft-drink can. >(3) Taped the pinhole metal over the lens cap hole. > >The automatic features don't work without a lens. >We chose a film speed of 1600 and tried manual >exposure times of 3-8 seconds (for a cloudy day). >It worked just fine. We also tried some manual flash >settings and got excellent close-up pinholes > >Have fun! >Gary Nored > > > >_______________________________________________ >Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML >Pinhole-Discussion mailing list >Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? >unsubscribe or change your account at >http://www.???????/discussion/ > >_______________________________________________ >Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML >Pinhole-Discussion mailing list >Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? >unsubscribe or change your account at >http://www.???????/discussion/ > _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus
