--- Guy Glorieux <guy.glori...@sympatico.ca> wrote: P.S. I wonder how many people on the list do ZP > together with PH. Is there > a ZP Vision group? The two are both very close > and yet very distant apart > from an esthetic perspective, at least in my humble > opinion.
Guy, I think this is a very intereting subject. I've been pinholing since I was a teenager in the early 1970s, but had never even heard of a zone plate until I joined this list about a year ago. I thought zone plate a very misleading term. I kept imagining something hard and rigid--a plate. I think ZP is much less well-known and suffers from the difficulty of creating a zone plate relative to creaitng a pinhole (we all know that even a ragged pin prick in aluminum foil will produce a pinhole image). I have found ZP frustrating in both color and black and white, but (generally speaking) I have so far liked the color images I have seen by other people better than the B&W images. Although Tina has been kind enough to praise some of my B&W ZP experiments (http://www2.gol.com/users/talcroft/PinholeSite/zoneplate.html). Maybe a poll is in order to get some idea how many on the list know about and have tried ZP photography?--or maybe it doesn't matter at all. Anyway, I think both are interesting and continue to believe it's the result that counts. Colin How about "zone lens" instead of zone plate? ___________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
