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All photos taken through fences. 

From top: the Manulifing of Robart's Library, and ripping up U of T Front Campus, both Ondu 6x12, FP4, Microphen; the two of the Cat D7 bulldozer are the Ondu with Pan F and Perceptol, and finally the RSS 6x9 with FP4 and Microphen. (You can see the setup for the Ondu dozer in my Pinhole Day Kit post.)

The challenge – one of the challenges – with pinhole cameras is that there's no viewfinder. Both of the cameras I used here, but not the Zero Image that I sold after five months, do have framing lines drawn on the camera box that are surprisingly helpful. But composing a photo still depends on a lot of putting my eye where I want the camera to be and then figuring out a way to get the pinhole into that spot. Just because I'm using the most primitive style of camera doesn't mean that I stop being me.

The 6x9 camera gets eight frames to a roll of 120; an inexpensive film and developer still puts that to about $1/frame. (Plus tax.) The 6x12 has six frames, so a more expensive film like Ortho is almost $2/frame, and Acros in Perceptol is healthily above that. So it's worth taking some time to get them right.

Right-ish, anyway.