Auloma Pinhole Magazine APM-number-002

auloma pinhole photography magazine english edition MMXXI - N°2

Auloma Pinhole Magazine

Marsilla Francesco

Auloma Diva 6x6

Shooting Church

How to load 4x5" film

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CONTENTS

MARSILLA FRANCESCO

PAG. 6

The witness of Italian rationalist architecture

AULOMA DIVA 6X6

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Who gets the top step on the podium

SHOOTING CHURCHS

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A perennial feeling of deja vu

HOW TO LOAD 4x5 LARGE

FORMAT FILMS INTO THE

STANDARD FILM HOLDER

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The few simple steps you need to load a 4x5 film

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Auloma Feris 4x5

Marsilla Francesco

The witness of Italian rationalist architecture

Through these photographs taken with

the Auloma Feris 4x5 large format

camera, Francesco wanted to bear

witness to a near past of Italian

architecture that has now been

forgotten. The province of Italy is dotted

with these buildings, guilty of being a

monumental testimony to a

cumbersome past. This guilt has turned

these buildings into a fetish, over which

an aesthetic vandalism has raged to

deface the friezes and symbols that

adorned them. The destruction has

been perpetrated over time, turning

them into ghostly phantoms, but

capable of a new decadent aesthetic.

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Who gets the top step on the

podium?

Auloma Diva 6x6

The smallest medium format camera body produced by Auloma weighing in at just 675 grams, the

Diva 6x6 is extremely thin, light and built to combine seamlessly with Aulomacolor's M-slot-in filter

holder designed to fit 84mm wide photographic filters, creating a highly compact and extremely

versatile medium format wide angle pinhole camera. The uncompromising image quality is

dependent on the accuracy of our pinholes machined on brass sheets only 0.05mm thick.

When we design a pinhole camera our first

thought is for the photographer who will use it.

Adopting the classic Auloma style that

combines high-tech solutions with elegance

and refined materials, the Auloma Diva 6x6

pinhole camera is an extraordinary tool with

essential lines, compact and easy to handle.

Manufactured by moulding highly resistant hitech

resins, its iconic design is highlighted by

the faux leather trim that covers the surface of

the camera, finished with our super-grip

treatment, just like the heads of racing engines.

The Pinhole Camera Diva 6x6 is built with

craftsmanship and skill at our factory in Italy

with meticulous attention to detail and the

strictest quality assurance.

The Auloma Diva 6x6 pinhole camera has two

pinholes, one central and one off-centre to

better manage the horizon curvature effect, but

it works as if there were three. This is possible

thanks to the double tripod mount. This means

that you can use the camera with the off-centre

hole above or below the central hole and

manage the curvature of the horizon in the

opposite way.

Opening and closing pinholes without moving

the camera is one of the biggest challenges of

pinhole cameras. The Auloma Diva 6x6 camera

is equipped with two shutters with a very low

friction coefficient that slide unhindered. The

shutter is equipped with a mechanical stop in

the open and closed positions and with

magnetic locks that ensure its open position

even for long exposures.

The Diva 6x6 camera has been designed to

easily install the Aulomacolor M filter holder,

which consists of two independent frames

made of extruded PETG to be installed on the

camera by means of two screws. The filter

holder M mounts any plate filter with a width of

84mm and a thickness of 1.6mm, in order to

guarantee simultaneous coverage of both

pinholes on the Diva camera, avoiding

vignetting effects. In order to ensure complete

coverage of the filter, it is necessary that they

have a minimum length of 84mm. Thanks to our

special elastic housings installed on the

Aulomacolor M filter holder, inserting the filters

is a simple and immediate operation, simply

slide the filters into the elastic housings and

position them in front of the pinhole.

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SPECIFICATIONS

Overall dimensions (HxWxD): 136x175x57mm (5-23/64"x6-57/64"x2-1/4")

Weight: 0.675Kg (1,48lb)

Material: Iron oxid-polyurethane composite material

Focal length: 31mm (1"7/32)

Pinhole diameter: 0.2mm (0"1/64;)

Angle of View: 105°12'

Film stop: f=155

Film size: 120

image size: 56mmx56mm (2-13/64"x2-13/64")

Tripod thread type: UNC 1/4"x20

Filter holder M (optional)

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Shooting Churches

A perennial feeling of deja vu.

Until 1860 the territory of Bologna belonged to the

Papal State. Up to that date, in the Papal dominions,

there was no lack of investments for the construction

of religious buildings and the period of maximum

splendor of this practice was the Baroque period. The

Baroque style spread rapidly since the seventeenth

century throughout the Italian territory, regions such

as Piedmont, Sicily and Puglia are dotted with

fantastic examples of Baroque magnificence, while in

the rest of the Italian territory only the provincial

capitals can boast Baroque magnificence. Bologna

and its plain territory excels for baroque painting but

not for architecture, however in this area in the

baroque period there has been a proliferation of new

buildings dedicated to worship or renovation of old

Romanesque and late Gothic buildings. The result is

a stylistic flattening that provides a perennial feeling

of deja vu.

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Church of St. Matteo, Molinella (BO) Italy - shot taken with pinhole camera Auloma Feris 4x5

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Santuario della Divina Misericordia, Ghergenzano (BO) Italy - shot taken with pinhole camera

Auloma Panorama 6x12

Church of St. Venanzio, Galliera (BO) Italy - shot taken with pinhole camera

Auloma Panorama 6x12

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Church of St. Pietro and Paolo, San Pietro in Casale (BO) Italy - shot taken with pinhole camera

Auloma Magnificat 4x5

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Church of Madonna della cintura, San Giovanni in Persiceto (BO) Italy - shot taken with pinhole camera

Auloma Diva 6x6

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Church of St. Agata and Lucia, San Pietro in Ca

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Church of St. Giovanni Battista, San Giovanni in Persiceto (BO) Italy - shot taken with pinhole camera

Auloma Diva 6x6

sale (BO) Italy - shot taken with pinhole camera

panorama 6x17

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How to load 4x5 large

format films into the

standard film holder

The few simple steps you need to load a 4x5 film

Often the photography executed by large format film 4x5 is considered a complicated activity that

need specific knowledge about this matter. Our opinion is that you must be very negatives in

comparison to many web discussions that describe this matter such as anachronistic and

complicated. The truth is very different, particulary if your approach to large format photography is

executed through a pinhole camera such as our models Magnificat and Feris.

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One of the most important thing that you must consider is that to shot large format photography you

must use sheet films with dimensions of 4x5" or 101.6x127mm, sheet films are packed inside

lightproof boxes, thus to avoid sheet films to be exposed when you open the box is necessary do all

load operations inside a dark room or with the use of a changing bag.

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In this article we going to describe how to load a sheet film using a changing bag, this because in

this case you must be more careful than when operate in a dark room. In the dark room the

operations are the same but don't need the same previously foresights to set the materials inside

the changing bag.

A changing bag it is like a black sac that can be opened in one side, where is possible put all

objects necessary to load the film. In lateral sides of the changing bag are available two lightproof

sleeves where is possible insert your arms to have access and operate inside. How you can see

isn't possible see anything inside the changing bag, so it is a good practice set all objects inside

the changing bag in the right position before the start, to get less dificulties during the film load

operations.

To be operative with our pinhole cameras Auloma Magnificat and Feria 4x5 you must get only two

things: the sheet films box and the film holder to put inside the changing bag. Remember to close

changing bag flap before the start.

When inserting the film holder inside the changing bag, don't forget the correct orientation of the

dark slides, both must be inserted into the film holder with the white marker visible, this what mean,

if pull out both dark slides and observe them you can see that in one side are completely black

instead in the opposite side the handle is white or another pale color. This different coloration is

standard reference for photographers that using large format films, the white handle visible on the

film holder mean that below the dark slide there is a virgin film negative ready to be exposed, as

soon as shooting the photo you must re-insert the dark slide but now will inserted with full black side

onsight, the black color indicate that below the dark slide there is an exposed film negative. This

practice helps the photographers, mistakes of shooting on negative film impressed previously can

be reduced.

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Materials necessary to be operative with pinhole cameras Magnificat and Feris 4x5, Film 4x5

package and film holeder 4x5. How you can see the film holder own the dark slides oriented with

white marker visible.

Now suit some cotton gloves or made in nitrile without talc dust to don't damage the film side with

developing solution and then insert your arms inside the changing bag. The first thing to do is grab

the film holder and pull until the half stroke the dark slide or pull out it completely.

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After lifting the dark slide, yo must going to open the cover placed on the film holder bottom, to

arrange the next film insertion.

Arranged the film holder, the next step is pick up a film from the box. Films inside the box are

enclosed inside lightproof bag, often folded up many time around the films, for this reason when is

removed from the box will be necessary unravel it and find the opening to pull out the film. Upon a

time the film is in your hand, you must arrange the film in the right way before insert it into the film

holder, obviously film manufacturers know that this operation is done in the dark, for this reason

have developed an efficent system to find the right film position. All films own in one of the short

side an asymmetric notch to identify its orientation. Each film manufacturers customise the notch

shape, so don't be astonished when touching the notch you can find some difference in its shape if

changing films supplier.

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The film must be oriented as is shown in the follow picture, in other words the notch must be in the

top right side in relation to the film holder entrance.

During the insertion is recommended to keep the back side of the film layed to the film holder layer,

in this way the film can sliding into its seat inside the film holder.

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Upon a time the film is inserted against the end of the seat, you must close the bottom cover in the

film holder and then close the dark slide until its edge will be wedge in the bottom door to assurance

the film holder lightproof. The standard 4x5 film holder contain two films, one for each side, so if you

want use entirely its capability you must repeat the operations described above also to load the film

in the other side.

When both films result loaded, before open the changing bag, you shall put the bag that contain

your unexposed films inside the cardboard box. Assured your films, you can exctract our arms from

the changing bag and open it to remove the film holder ready to be installed onto the pinhole

camera.

Pick up now the pinhole camera and in the back release the chromed knobs used to block the film

holder clamps, so, move outside both clamps to clear the film holder seat, in this way will be easy

insert the film holder in the camera back. To do that will be enough orienting the film holder as is

represented in picture below and then sliding it into the seat until the stop.

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After the film holder insertion into the seat, close both clamps and tight all four chromed knobs,

thanks to the clamps shape developed by Auloma, the perfect closure of the film holder against the

camera seat will be guarantee to avoid light leakage.

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