Pinhole challenge

Competition Details

Pinhole challenge - Due on 25/11/2006 (can i finish it by then?!)
There are two (2) phases for this competition:

Phase 1: To make the pinhole camera
Phase 2: To use the camera you made for photography

Please visit the following URL for the camera we are making:
http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html

All material will be standardised and they will be provided to you (Stiff Paper & film)*, there will be no difference in material for each of the candidate.
*something changed later, anyone can use their preferred film and paper :-)

Please treat it as a project and try to document everything you did, each of the candidate will have to make a quick presentation (5 mins per candidate).

Judging will be done by the President of CPSA, aka David Fok :-)

Judging consideration
1. The presentation (30%)
2. The camera (20%)
3. The prints (50%)


Recording bits of my plan

Presentation
Slide 1 Self-portrait (upside down) as b/g, title + name + date
Slide 2 Rules & Regs (what were we making... how)
Slide 3 Materials
Slide 4 Critical issues for making the camera
a. blockage of external lights (sealing at different points), sealing with cloth?/paper?
b. Make the pinhole sharp (exact 4mm, material, making the hole) ->sharper & cleaner image
c. build of the camera
Slide 5 Here comes my first Dirkin
Slide 6 Pinhole photography (subject? choice of film... what ISO? properties & similar of Foma 21 DIN? exposure control??)
Slide 7 [thank you]
(+voice?)

Blurred vs Sharp; Articificial vs Natural

While a lot of amateur photographers are chasing for sharpness in photos, if we take a look at the advertising pages and the poster of the worldly brands, like agnes b, what we see are out-of-focus images (and/or) motion blurs etc., which deviates exactly oppositely to the road to sharpness.
what does it mean to u?