The Lensless Zine 2019

September 11, 2019  •  Leave a Comment

Front Cover of The Lensless Zine 2019 by The Lensless Podcast, A Pinhole Photography ShowcaseThe Lensless Zine 2019Pinhole Photography Showcase For the third time this year I am excited to announce a new zine on these pages. And this one is very special! It's the result of a collaboration of 16 pinhole photographers around The Lensless Podcast who came together and provided photographs for this unique showcase of pinhole photography.

Pinhole photography provides the ultimate simplification. Instead of a complex camera, a pinhole camera is just a light tight box with a tiny hole, or pinhole, projecting light on a photo sensitive material like photographic film or paper. There is no lens and therefore no aperture control.

The pinholes are very tiny. Expressed as an f-stop they're often smaller than f/128. As a result, exposure times are in seconds or minutes instead of traditional fractions of seconds. When combined with a slow medium, like a slow ISO film or photo paper, they can often approach on a hour or even more. That opens up many new creative opportunities.

The aperture not only controls the amount of light reaching the photo sensitive material, it also controls the depth of field. The smaller the opening, the larger the depth of field. Since the apertures of pinhole cameras are so tiny, they provide an almost indefinite depth of field from front to back. That provides an interesting effect. While nothing is really in perfect sharp focus, everything is rendered with the same sharpness whether it's millimeters away from the camera or far in the distance. That creates another technical phenomenon often exploited by pinhole photographers.

Back Cover of The Lensless Zine 2019, by The Lensless Podcast, Pinhole Photography ShowcaseThe Lensless Zine 2019Pinhole Photography Showcase Pinhole camera shutters are often very basic mechanical devices that manually move to reveal the pinhole. The brief camera shake is really not an issue with such long exposures. However, some more advanced pinhole cameras offer a way of attaching a mechanical remote release, like on old film cameras. Usually, pinhole cameras are used either on a tripod or laid down on whatever is available. Some photographers like to explore hand-holding as a way of adding more creative blur.

The Lensless Zine 2019:

- 8.5" x 5.5” Landscape Format Zine
- 36 total pages including front cover, intro, photographer directory, and back cover
- 32 previously unpublished black and white pinhole photographs from 16 different photographers
- All profits benefit The Lensless Podcast
- Available for purchase on my Zine Page

Get your own copy, and who knows, maybe you will join the passionate group of pinhole photographers who embrace the simplicity of the process and love capturing unique images of our world.

Enjoy The Beauty That Surrounds You! #etbtsy

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