Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - 28 April 2024.

2024 was another outing for the 8x10 Pinhole Camera, with a 0.020 inches (0.51 mm) pinhole for an aperture of f/300.

The weather was better than in the past and Ye Olde Photographer took advantage of that. The Pinhole Assist app was used on an iPhone 13 Pro to determine exposure. A sanity check was made using a Gossen DigiSix and a translation chart used in some prior years. The results were quite encouraging.

In all, six shots were taken on Fuji HR-T X-ray film developed 3:00 in HC-110 1+63. Two of the shots were just different exposures without changing the composition, so we selected the better of the two. Later the negatives were contact printed on 8x10 Ilford Multigrade RC with a pearl surface. The results were judged quite satisfactory for the most part. An enlarger, a venerable Omega B-8, is just used as a light source. Most prints were made with a #2-1/2 contrast filter for the multi-grade paper. The resulting prints were scanned on a Canon MG6300 flatbed using VueScan and minimal adjustments.

The color shots below the first row are iPhone snaps of some of the setups and happenings during the pinhole efforts.

The official WPPD submission should appear at this link.