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Zone plate pics
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some zone plates on neopan. Bought from pinhole resource for $20, this particular one is 75mm & f65- you must mount according to the focal length. I tried it out on 35mm and 6×6, the soft effect is more pronounced on the smaller neg – even more so on a digital sensor.
I got the dimensions right on this one. :oops:
Some really soft images , full of atmosphere, favourites are the boat and that lonely tree. Do you print these images, I’d imagine that first one would make a really nice print.
Cheers Eddie. I haven’t printed any. I’d like to do some proper darkroom prints but I’ve been procrastinating. I’ve got some stuff to read up on…spoilt by digital. That boat one has some rich tones in it alright, that was neopan shot a t 400, alot nicer than pushing it…although i like the noise too. I’ve only got my hands on a zone plate recently. thanks for the info on the posting, the pinhole post reads like an add for the (yet to be created :wink: ) pinhole section.Besides , i don’t mind if they are viewed as thumnails, you don’t need to see a pinhole photo so big in alot of cases.
Yeah love the soft atmosphere. Dreamy almost.
Again, i love the tree one!
Cool shots man!
Luke Portess wrote:
… ? not sure why that word doesn’t come out….. rhymes with prawn.
Ahh, French soft prawns, with a little garlic butter, and a glass of well chilled Chablis…
I’m making myself hungry…Nice shots by the way, very unusual.
Number one for me, followed by the tree,
Very moody and atmospheric…Rob.
Very nice.
Can you write a little bit more on how you made these images?
Cath.
I love the last two. It’s a pity that I don’t have space for a darkroom, I swear I’d go back from the boringly perfect digital. What film was the last two? There’s everything in them what I miss from my pictures. Beautiful work!
Thanks for the comments. digital IS boringly perfect (i use digital too), but i suppose it’s what you do afterwards i.e in the post processing, but where’s the fun in that. Film is fun, and each roll is a punctuation in your life.
The first two are 35mm – on neopan 400 and the 2nd two on 120 same film pushed to 1600. There’s no focusing involved – the zone plate is a piece of othographic film, the blackness being enough to define the ‘lens’ which is about .2 or .3mm and there discs of …These yokes!
viewfinding is tough at f65! I’ve one mounted on a bodycap with some extension tubes to bring it out 75mm – pentax k mount, and the other one a mamiya 645, previously had been on a old 6×6 folder rangefinder (these were taken on this) – the flip up viewfinder was too far off. I think tlr is the way to go for these…
That tree is right beside shannon airport (i went to shoot planes). I was stopped by going there by a garda this weekend…. he was like the guy on Robs avatar.
Here a couple of 35mm i took this weekend. I wish a had used some fancier film, the colours lend a certain atmosphere though, kinda technicolour. These are straight lores scans from the ‘unipharm ‘. Not very good advert for the modern irishman.
(superia 800 press)
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