Re: developing tank pinhole camera?

Take a look at:

    http://www.zeroimage.com/freeproject/oatmeal/oatmealcan.html

Just use a paint can instead of the oatmeal can.

Best Regards,

-chris

rahji@rahji.com wrote:

>Has anyone made a pinhole camera (maybe out of a paint can or something)
>with a light trap on the top that would let developing chemicals in?
>Basically something that would work just like a developing tank with a
>pinhole in the side?
>
>I'm just curious because it sounds like it'd be pretty easy to make a camera
>like this and it might be a way to make WWPD really accessible to
>non-pinholers.
>
>eg: what if you made a bunch of these cameras (with the paper in them
>already) and had a group/class/etc take pictures with them (you'd already
>have an idea of what typical exposure times would be since they're all the
>same focal length and pinhole size), then gather everyone back together and
>pour developer in the first one, dump that developer into the next one and
>replace it with stop/water in the first one, and so on like a daisy chain.
>
>Seems like the easiest way to have a group take pictures and have developed
>negatives without a darkroom.
>
>I know some people have developed paper negatives in a can camera but I'm
>guessing they do it in a darkroom. The light trapped hole on the top might
>be a good addition. Has it been done already?
>
>Rob
>
>
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Received on Sat Jan 5 22:38:32 2002