Not sure what happened to these. Completely blurry and there are some weird light/dark areas that make me suspect the film is being fogged by a light leak somewhere. The lack of sharpness might be from the fogginess: there is a dark center to some of the images, surrounded by a much lighter periphery. The grain might be adding to the appearance of unsharpness, since this is 400 speed film (I am regretting that decision now).
I picked up a Nikon body cap on eBay the other night so I may hold off on more experiments til that arrives.
And, in response to this comment, I am following a couple of 120 format* folding cameras on eBay (I passed on a Kodak Brownie the other day: it was only £.50 (plus shipping: about £3 more) but I figured I didn’t need that much of a learning experience). I think I am compounding a couple of mistakes here, between a suspect camera body, not-well-crafted pinholes (though I was much more thorough on this last one), and film I’m not all that impressed with.
The pinhole I used today was punched from lightweight aluminum stock, same as before, but I got some 400 grit sandpaper and polished both sides. I took a look through it with a loupe on my lightbox and it looks clean, nice and round with no diffraction/haloing around it. I was able to compose somewhat with it, dark though it was, so I’m less worried about that than the possibility of a light leak.
If I can get this to work, I think it will get me interested in photography again. The challenge of making a picture without focusing, with no aperture control, just composition and post-processing, is appealing.
* I just learned that 120 format film has been in production since 1901. Amazing.