Skink Stainless Steel Pinhole Pancake for Nikon SLR

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Skink Stainless Steel Pinhole Pancake for Nikon SLR

Postby calford on Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:10 am

Can someone tell me what this lenses does, will it work on a D70S, and are there any advantages to it if it does work? (or disadvantages)

Thanks in advance,

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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:41 am

Al - if you can find a Nikon mount Skink - yes it will work - but seriously, why bother :roll:
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Postby DaveB on Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:18 am

It's a pinhole lens for your camera. Search the net and you'll find details.
The Skink is in an M42 screw mount (the mount used be camera including the Pentax Spotmatic - my first SLR!) and when bundled with the appropriate adapter for EOS or Nikon will fit your camera.

If you want to experiment with pinhole photography, my recommendation would be to make a pinhole in tin-plate (web resources should provide more information) as it's important to have a small and very-round hole and this is easy to work with.
Then to attach this to your camera I would recommend sacrificing a body cap: drill a hole in the centre of the cap and tape the plate over that.

All it costs is a body cap. If you then want to experiment with different focal lengths, just introduce extension tubes. If you have the tubes already they're no-cost, and if you don't you can use them for other things in the future.
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Postby Glen on Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:26 am

Al,
If you want a real cheap experiment with no waiting time, just do what I did and tape a bit of alfoil over the lens mount and put a small pin hole in the centre. Price $0, delivery time 0. :D PS I would recommend DaveB suggestion, that is what I am going to try next.
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Postby calford on Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:52 am

Thans very much, I'll try both methods.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:15 pm

Does anyone have any photos posted of the results of using one of this home-made DYI pinholes ?.... Going to go dredge the forum for some examples...
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Postby Glen on Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:24 pm

Craig, there are some of mine here, if you don't find them I will post a couple better ones but seriously give it a go right now. It will take almost as long to find the shots as make your own.

Step 1. Turn camera off and remove lens.

Step 2. Apply alfoil over lens mount and around body a little bit. Hold down with masking tape.

Step 3. Place small pinhole with pin in centre of alfoil.

Step 4. Turn camera on in manual mode and start shooting.

Good luck
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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:14 pm

I might try this next time the wife is out of the house... don't want to raise her concern....
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Postby Glen on Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:24 pm

Craig, It is a bit hard to explain that you have spent $2k on a lens and you can do the same thing with a bit of old alfoil :lol:
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Postby elffinarts on Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:20 pm

Glen wrote:Craig, It is a bit hard to explain that you have spent $2k on a lens and you can do the same thing with a bit of old alfoil :lol:


that or just try to get through the hysterics when she assumes you've just broken that $2K lens and you're trying to keep shooting now without it. :P
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Postby marcotrov on Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:26 pm

I'm afraid I agree with Chris, Why bother! Experimentation I suppose, but then again i can only think of 1million 500thousand other things I'd rather experiment with :lol:
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Postby digitor on Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:50 pm

marcotrov wrote:I'm afraid I agree with Chris, Why bother! Experimentation I suppose, but then again i can only think of 1million 500thousand other things I'd rather experiment with :lol:
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Pure science, whilst it might not pay any immediately identifiable benefits, is worthwhile doing, and is good for the soul. 8) My first photograph (albeit a short lived negative image) was made with a pinhole in one end of a shoebox, with a piece of printing paper stuck on the inside at the opposite end. As I recall, you could definitely make out the chookhouse. One of my Dad's mates in the early sixties was a photog, he was the source of the paper, and I guess, the camera design! He also liked using explosives to blow up tree stumps, but that's a whole 'nother story.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Postby elffinarts on Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:20 pm

*chuckles* now that sounds liek more fun! still got access to explosives? hehe
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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:33 pm

elffinarts wrote:*chuckles* now that sounds liek more fun! still got access to explosives? hehe


Careful - Nation Security might be monitoring this site seeing as most of us have big lenses too :roll:
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