Film mistakes are so much more rewarding...
ghost coffeepot
Done with a big wooden studio camera a century old, but I had taken the pneumatic shutter out for repair and forgot about the 5/16" hole in the 9X9 inch lens board where the air hose goes through. The 'pinhole' was offset about 6 inches from the lens axis. Thus the coffeepot and cups was the designed picture and the window would have never been seen. You can see the ghost of the 2 cups in the upper left.
It's a double image, one with the lens, and one with the lensless 5/16ths hole acting like a rather rude 'pinhole.
Note the black background behind the cups and urn. That allowed a pallet for the pinhole image to register on. It was supposed to look like this;
cooke 15.5" series IV
ghost coffeepot
Done with a big wooden studio camera a century old, but I had taken the pneumatic shutter out for repair and forgot about the 5/16" hole in the 9X9 inch lens board where the air hose goes through. The 'pinhole' was offset about 6 inches from the lens axis. Thus the coffeepot and cups was the designed picture and the window would have never been seen. You can see the ghost of the 2 cups in the upper left.
It's a double image, one with the lens, and one with the lensless 5/16ths hole acting like a rather rude 'pinhole.
Note the black background behind the cups and urn. That allowed a pallet for the pinhole image to register on. It was supposed to look like this;
cooke 15.5" series IV
