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By:David F. Stein
Pinhole imagery may be photographyís equivalent of drawing with chalk.   Simple. Cheap.   Accessible to anyone.   Capable of astonishing, sophisticated results.   This is photographyís sleight of hand.   The fact that we can produce a quality image on sensitized materials without a lens fascinates and inspires.   Out of nothing comes something‚ and all that.   Our work can be as studied and precise as traditional view camera photography or as spontaneous as loading some 1600 speed film in a 35mm camera fitted with a pinhole body cap and taking pinhole snapshots.

One of my first decent images.   The camera was made from an empty box of 5x7 enlarging paper.   The film was Kodak Commercial, unfortunately no longer manufactured, which was capable of excellent tonality and could be developed by inspection, as we do prints, under a conventional red-amber safe light.   Enlarging paper and lith film can both be used as ...

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