Although I remember reading this before, it helps to go over it again and review the basics of the pinhole and the benefits of a viewfinder. After using several different kinds of cameras I found that I could never warm up the the kinds of cameras with viewfinders separate from the lens. I love my SLR Nikon and felt more comfortable making a nice composition with that camera rather than the Holga in 290 last quarter. I admit my worst problem was very very embarrassing when we had to use disposable cameras and most of the pictures were blocked out by one of my fingers. I was not proud. Most people have no problem with the parallax error, but I really hated it.

I’m also interested in playing around with blurring techniques in photoshop for fun, but I also want to have more time with the 4 x 5 to play with that same technique.

I bought some magnification lenses a while ago which are discussed in the reading and I have only tried them out on a digital camera since they are not completely easy to use. They allow one to shoot something much closer that what a normal camera lens would allow, but can be very sensitive!