Skink Pinhole Pancake Kit - Olympus Pen E-P1 Micro 4/3

Skink Pinhole Pancake Kit

The Skink Pinhole Pancake System is the ideal addition to your camera and offers new creative opportunities to the photo enthusiast.

Depending on the desired effect, you can use your camera as a pinhole-, zone plate- or zones sieve camera. To a high degree the installed aperture determines how your vision is creatively interpreted in rendering an image. The traditional pinhole creates relatively sharp images with exposure times ranging from one second to several minutes. With a zone plate or zone sieve however, photos can be taken without a tripod, if the lighting conditions permit higher speeds.
In comparison, images turn out softer with a painterly, impressionists' character. Highlight are emphasized and appear with a dreamy halo-effect, while darker areas seem to be pushed into the background.

This kit includes a suitable pinhole and zone plate insert for the pinhole pancake.

Unlike, when using glass lenses, light meets the film surface or camera sensor in a pure unmanipulated way when it travels through a pinhole.
In architectural photography converging lines can be avoided and the pinhole renders wide angle images with a soft timeless character.

The sample photos below were taken with pinhole, zone plate and zone sieve. 

Additional sample can be seen in flickr.

The Skink Pinhole Pancake is handmade using high quality material.

• Material: jewelry grade 316L stainless steel
• with universal closure (center screw ring) for swapping pinholes, zone plates and zone sieves
• Maximum diameter of aperture disks: 20mm
• Focal length: 24mm
• Angle of view with Micro Fourthirds: 50°
• Angle of view with Leica: 84°
• Pinhole size: 0.2mm (nominal 218µm according Lord Rayleigh formula)
• Aperture: f/110
  
  

This Skink Pinhole Pancake Kit with included adapters can be used with Micro Fourthirds cameras and a wide range of Leica compatible cameras. Please refer to the compatibility chart on the right.