wooden box with a hole

In my year of analog photography 2019 I would like to test an ancient way of photography: using a pinhole camera. Since a few days I own a ZeroImage 2000: a beautifully crafted small wooden box with brass knobs and a 0.2 mm pinhole for creating the image. On 120 mm film it takes pictures of 6×6 cm. the slider on the front is the shutter.

Last wednesday I inserted a Kodak T-max 100, grabbed the tripod and then made a tour through Aarau. I used the app pinhole master on my iPhone to determine the exposure time at aperture 138 and to the into account the reciprocity effect at long exposure times (data from here: link, don kirby table). On Wednesday it was sunny and therefore the exposure time for most of the pictures was around 1 second. Finally i took a picture of a tree in the Franckegut park in aarau with an exposure time of 6 minutes. The pinhole master app determined all times perfectly.

After 12 photos the tension rose while I developed the film in the kitchen ... and it worked.

Scanning was, as always, a struggle with the dust. The photos are well exposed. The sharpness is pinhole typical: never quite sharp, but still about the same from front to back; certain close objects seem to be a bit sharper than others. I found the theory on the pinhole camera, geometry, physics still exciting (see wikipedia) - reminded me of my physics class.