620 Pinhole

Another example of a 620 pinhole camera I was testing back in 1977. For some reason, all the negatives exhibit bad light leak problems.

The fact that it resembles a shot taken with a fisheye lens is misleading. What is actually taking place here is I was shooting out my bedroom window through an arch opening out to the front yard and road beyond. The top half of the circle is the edge of the arch. The bottom half of the circle is the shadow created from the arch in addition to which it was a dark, cloudy day and what was in shadow just didn't get much exposure or light.

Another thing I noticed was that, the only 620 cameras I had at the time were Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash cameras, which run the negative from above to below, making the images sideways compared to the number strips along each edge. This entire set of negatives featured the images right side up, with the number strips running above and below the image, as if the film travelled left to right. For the life of me, I can't image what I did or what camera I used to get the images to turn out that way.