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Holga S120N 6×6 mit Skink Pinhole Lochblende und Photonensieb – hacking your Holga

Großartige Bilder mit Skink Pinhole Lochblende in der Holga

Kein Zweifel, es macht Spaß, sich mit einer Holga Spielzeugkamera kreativ zu betätigen. Immerhin handelt es sich bei der Holga um eine echte Mittelformatkamera! Die Kamera hat eine kleine Meniskuslinse aus Acryl mit 60mm Brennweite und  Bildwinkel von 70° in 6×6 Format. Natürlich kann man über die Bildqualität streiten, aber das ist doch einer der Gründe, warum es soviel Spaß macht, mit der Holga zu fotografieren. Jedes Bild garantiert eine neue Überraschung.

Es gibt auch Spielzeugkameras mit einer eingebauten Lochblende, wobei auch hier letztendlich die Bildqualität von der Qualität der Blende abhängig ist. Lochblenden aus Plastik, Kupfer oder Aluminium sind zu dick um scharfe Bilder erzeugen zu können. Unsere Lochblenden sind aus einem ungewöhnlich dünnem (30µm) und zudem äußerst festem Stahlsubstrat hergestellt.  Falls Sie Lust haben, diese mit Ihrer Holga auszuprobieren – hier ein paar Tipps dazu. Die Acryllinse der Holga wird innerhalb des Objektivs durch einen kleinen schwarzen Ring festgehalten. Die folgenden Bilder illustrieren, wie Sie die Linse einfach durch eine Lochblende, Zonenplatte oder Photonensieb ersetzen. Unsere Blenden haben, passend zum Holgaobjektiv, einen Durchmesser von 20mm.

Zur Illustration weiter unten: 1. Lösen Sie zunächst die Schrauben oben 2. und unten im Innenraum der Kamera (gut aufheben, weil diese noch gebraucht werden) 3. Nun kann der Objektivsockel vom Gehäuse entfernt werden 4. und 5. Entfernen Sie diese Schraube, um das Objektiv vom Sockel lösen zu können. Später kann auf diese verzichtet werden. 6. Nehmen Sie den kleinen schwarzen Ring heraus, bevor Sie die Acryllinse durch die Lochblende ersetzen. 7. Nachdem Sie die Lochblende mit dem schwarzen Ring abgedeckt haben kann das Objektiv wie ein Schraubdeckel am Objektivsockel befestigt werden. 8. Zuguterletzt wird der Objektivsockel wieder auf das Gehäuse geschraubt (siehe 2.) Wenn beim Umbau nicht kaputtgegangen, können Sie die Kamera dann wie gewohnt weiterbenutzen.

 

Empfohlene Lochblende: 0.3mm = f/200

Empfohlenes Photonensieb: f/59

 

 

Magnificant pictures with Skink Pinhole in a Holga

No doubt, using a Holga toy camera to express your creativity is fun. After all, the Holga is a real medium format camera! The camera has a small meniscus lens made of plastic with 60mm focal length and a 70° angle of view on 6×6 format. Of course one can argue about the image quality, but this is one of the reasons, why people have fun playing with a Holga. With every picture you are in for a new surprise.

There are also some toy cameras with a build-in pinhole aperture, where the picture quality equally is determined by the quality of the aperture. Pinhole apertures made of plastic, copper or aluminium are too thick to render sharp images. Our pinhole apertures are made of very thin (30µm), yet extremely strong steel substrate with high tensile strength. If you are tempted to try one of those in your Holga camera, here are some ideas on how to do it.  The plastic lens of the Holga is held in place by a small black ring inside the lens-body. The following  pictures illustrate how you can replace this lens with a pinhole aperture, zone plate or zone sieve. Our apertures, compatible with the Holga lens chamber,  have a diameter of 20mm.

Explanation to illustrations below: 1. Loosen the screws on top 2. and below inside the camera body 3. Now the lens module can be removed from the camera body 4. and 5. Remove this screw, to detach the lens from the lens module. It can be discarded later. 6. Lift the small black ring inside the lens before you replace the aryllic lens with the pinhole aperture 7. After covering the aperture with the black ring, you can screw the lensbody to the lens module, just like you would close the lid of a jar. 8. Finally, the lens module has to be connected to the camera body (refer to 2.) If nothing went broken during the modification, you can use the camera as normal.

 

Suggested pinhole aperture: 0.3mm = f/200

Suggested zone sieve aperture: f/59

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Introducing Skink Pinhole Pancake “Retro”

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Der neue Skink Pinhole Pancake “Retro”

Das neue Pancakeobjektiv ist da. - Wir freuen uns, Ihnen den neuen Skink Pinhole Pancake “Retro” vorstellen zu können!

Mit diesem neuen Lochkameravorsatz haben wir Ihre Wünsche berücksichtigt und bieten ergänzend zu der Version “Classic” ein weiteres Pancakeobjektiv an.  Der Skink Pinhole Pancake “Retro” ist aus hochwertigem massivem Aluminium hergestellt und bietet einen präzis gefrästen Bajonetanschluß, passend zu Ihrer Kamera. Im Gegensatz zu sogenannten “Bodycaps” wurden hier keine Plastikteile verarbeitet. Dank des modularen Designs, lassen sich die verschiedenen Lochblenden, Zonenplatten oder Photonensiebe schnell und einfach austauschen. Das Filtergewinde ermöglicht den Anschluß von Filtern, Objektivdeckel oder Sonnenblende. So wie die Version “Classic”, wird auch dieses Lochkameraobjektiv in drei Konfigurationen als “Starter Kit”, “Creative Kit” oder “Pro Kit” angeboten. Das “Starter Kit” kann jederzeit mit zusätzlichen Blenden erweitert werden.

Jetzt lieferbar zu:

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Leica M
Nikon
mFT (Lumix, Olympus Micro Fourthirds)
Pentax Q
Sony NEX

 


 

The new Skink Pinhole Pancake “Retro”

The new pancake lens is here. – We are happy to introduce the new Skink Pinhole Pancake “Retro”!

With this pinhole lens we have considered your wishes and introduce in addition to the “classic” version a new model of the pinhole pancake. The Skink Pinhole Pancake “Retro” is made of high quality massive aluminium. It offers a precisely machined bayonet mount to fit your camera. Unlike so-called “Body Caps” there are no plastic parts. Thanks to its modular design, various pinhole apertures, zone plates or zone sieves can easily be swapped with each other. The standard filter thread allows the use of filters, lens cap or lens hood. In the same way as the “classic” version, this pinhole pancake is available in three different configurations, as “Starter Kit”, “Creative Kit” or “Pro Kit”. The “Starter Kit” can be upgraded with additonal apertures at any time.

Now available in the shop for:

Canon EOS
Leica M
Nikon
mFT (Lumix, Olympus Micro Fourthirds)
Pentax Q
Sony NEX

 

 


 

 


 

Wide Angle Pinhole Photography on 6×12 Medium Format Roll Film

Film is still widely available and professional photographers love the “gigapixel” resolution of this medium. Film can store far more detail than any digital camera sensor. Fine and coarse details are recorded naturally. Using a premium quality pinhole aperture on medium format film rewards the photographer with images which are truely special. A pinhole lens offers unlimited depth of field with equally sharp details throughout the picture, but due to longer exposure times, moving objects are recorded with more or less motion blur. Embracing motion blur as an element of time is a wonderful technique to expand ones creative horizon.  A shorter focal length and a resulting wider angle of view produce a light fall-off towards the edges of an image. This beautiful vignetting effect is typical for wide-angle pinhole photos.

Skink Pinhole Pancakes with premium quality pinhole apertures are available:

  • for DIY pinhole cameras
  • for Hasselblad
  • as inserts for Copal or Prontor #0 shutters
  • or pre-installed – in lensboards for Linhof, Toyo, Sinar and other large format cameras.
  • also for most digital cameras

The modular design of Skink Pinhole Pancakes allows the use of pinholes, zone plates or zone sieves (photon lenses) in the same pancake lens.

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rose – pinhole lightpainting (Ilford Pan F Pro 50)

You have tried light-painting, you have tried pinhole photography. Have you ever used pinhole to do light-painting? Yes, it can be done. Instead of a torch light try a normal flash. For this image of a rose, a flashlight (guide 18 strength) was fired 30 times from a 20 cm distance. Be aware of the direction of the light to emphasize contours and highlights as you would do in light-painting.

Camera: Chamaeleon Panorama 6×12 / 6×6 – Serial #122 with Skink Pinhole Pancake insert
Light source: pinhole flash light painting
Flash: guide 18
Film: Ilford PAN F Plus

Chamaeleon Panorama 6×12 Serial No. #126

with a focal length of 39mm this camera produces full 6×12 images with 119° angle of view. Six images fit on one 120 medium format roll film. The camera is using a laser-drilled pinhole, the same as those used for the Skink Pinhole Pancake. The apertures are exchangable. Besides pinhole aperture, this camera also takes zone plates or zones sieves (photon lenses).

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Camera: Chamaeleon Panorama 6×12 Serial #126
Film: Fuji Superia 100
Exposure: 6 seconds

in some situations it is impossible to measure or calculate the “correct” exposure and you have to rely on your luck and intuition. Here the camera was aiming against the setting sun with partly illuminated interior and and brightly lit exterior.

Pinhole Exposure Table for DSLR / SLR cameras

One of the most useful tools for the pinhole photographer is the Pinhole Designer by David Balihar. The exposure table below has been created with this tool.

The calculated values include allowance for reciprocity failure of mentioned films. If you are using a Skink Pinhole Pancake with a DSLR camera, the exposure table will give you an idea how to get started. When taking your first pinhole photo with a DSLR camera you can try this for a quick start:

  • Take your camera out on a sunny day and place it on a tripod
  • Choose ISO 200
  • Set the camera to AV mode or A mode (Aperture priority). The camera will measure the exposure through the pinhole lens.
  • Set the camera to manual mode if aperture priority mode is not supported, choose 1 second exposure
  • Bracket exposure and make adjustments


f number:151 Exposure factor for f number 22: 47.1 x Including reciprocity failure Resulting Time for f/22


Ilford FP4 Plus 125
Kodak
T-MAX 100
Fomapan
100
Fuji
Superia 100
1/1000 1/30 1/1000 1/30 1/1000 1/30 1/1000 1/30
1/500 1/15 1/500 1/15 1/500 1/15 1/500 1/15
1/250 1/4 1/250 1/4 1/250 1/4 1/250 1/4
1/125 1/2 1/125 1/2 1/125 1/2 1/125 1/2
1/60 1 s 1/60 1 s 1/60 1 s 1/60 1 s
1/30 3 s 1/30 2 s 1/30 7 s 1/30 2 s
1/15 7 s 1/15 5 s 1/15 19 s 1/15 3 s
1/8 16 s 1/8 9 s 1/8 43 s 1/8 9 s
1/4 38 s 1/4 18 s 1/4 2 m 1/4 19 s
1/2 2 m 1/2 37 s 1/2 4 m 1/2 41 s
1 s 5 m 1 s 1 m 1 s 9 m 1 s 1 m
2 s 19 m 2 s 3 m 2 s 24 m 2 s 3 m
4 s 1 h 4 s 8 m 4 s 1 h 4 s 8 m
8 s 4 h 8 s 22 m 8 s 4 h 8 s 24 m
15 s 15 h 15 s 1 h 15 s 13 h 15 s 1 h
30 s 59 h 30 s 4 h 30 s 49 h 30 s 4 h
1 m 233 h 1 m 13 h 1 m 190 h 1 m 14 h
2 m 930 h 2 m 50 h 2 m 749 h 2 m 52 h

pond – zone sieve image

after a lot of experimentation with various zone sieve designs for Leica rangefinder cameras, I found that this one works best:

Skink Pinhole Pancake
Focal length/ zone sieve distance to film: 24mm f/72

Angle of View: 84° just as wide as an Elmar or Summilux ;)
Film: Fuji Superia 200

overcast afternoon sky

the zone sieve used here has only two clear concentric rings with small circles. Some highlights are visible, while image sharpness is just fine. The painterly effect reminds me a little of Monet’s paintings.


Lotus Pond – Leica pinhole with Ilford SFX 200

The Ilford SFX 200 black and white film with extended red sensitivity up to 740nm is one of the most popular near infrared films. When used without filter it performs like a standard medium speed monochrome film.
If you want to be creative, you must try it with a dark red filter. Blue skies can be rendered black and, depending on the light intensity, vegetation appears almost white.
And yes, it also works with pinhole lenses ! This shot was taken at a lotus pond in bright sunshine.

Camera: Leica type Rangefinder
Lens: Wide Angle Skink Pinhole Pancake
Pinhole: 0.2mm
Film: Ilford SFX200
Filter: IR filter insert for Skink Pinhole Pancake (89B / R72)
Exposure time: approx. 3 seconds at noon
Manipulation: added sepia toning in Photoshop

Hong Kong – Star Ferry (zone plate photo)

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On the Star Ferry

there is a 10 minutes’ break between two ferries, just enough time for a nap …

The gate (see left) was kept closed because the boat had not yet arrived and I had to find a way to get camera with tripod through it. To compose the image, the camera was just arranged “level” 30cm high on the ramp. — Extreme lighting conditions make zone plate photography a challenge. Highlights easily get blown out and show a halo-effect, while darker

areas appear sharp and a little under-exposed.

Camera: Leica rangefinder
Film: Fuji superia 100
Zone Plate: Skink Pinhole Pancake with zoneplate – 11 zones, f/46
Exposure time: about 3 seconds
camera mounted on little tripod

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