Re: polaroid conversion

Dan Gerber wrote:

> Thanks Matti, would you be able to provide me with a starting point for a
> good pinhole size for this type of joycam conversion?
>
> Much appreciated,
> Dan

good grief, I just poked with a sewing needle. Guillermo could easily
say whats the optimum pinhole size. One thing is that I've had much
trouble with correct exposure. The Joycam film is 600 ASA, but getting
decent pictures has been really difficult, maybe because of reciprocity,
which I have not found on Polaroid's web pages.
But everything doesn't have to be so fine :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pinhole-discussion-admin@pinhole.com
> [mailto:pinhole-discussion-admin@pinhole.com]On Behalf Of mjkoskin
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:10 PM
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] polaroid conversion
>
>
> I converted my Joycam to pinhole cam by removing the mirror and drilling
> a hole in the plastic case over the film. The lenses I covered with
> black tape and taped pinhole made from coke can over the hole. A piece
> of tape
> works as a shutter. My present tripod-mount is not one of the bests, I
> glued a nut on a piece of wood and with small screws assembled this to
> Joycam, it's shaky but better than nothing.
>
> -matti
> mjkoskin@sci.fi
>
>
> Dan Gerber wrote:
>
>
>>I think I remember that someone on the list made a pinhole camera out of a
>>Polaroid Joycam, but I can't find any info when I search...I have a Joycam
>>waiting to be pinhole-ized, but wanted to find more specific info first. I
>>took apart an old time-zero camera, and was able to replace the lens with
>>
> a
>
>>pinhole, but it takes SX-70 film, and I am trying to get the battery
>>contacts on 600 film to work-I gave up over the holidays.
>>
>>Maybe the Joycam converter will pipe in with their info?...
>>
>>-Dan
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: pinhole-discussion-admin@pinhole.com
>>[mailto:pinhole-discussion-admin@pinhole.com]On Behalf Of Ray Esposito
>>Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:42 PM
>>To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
>>Subject: [pinhole-discussion] polaroid conversion
>>
>>
>>Which Polaroid makes for the best or easiest pinhole conversion?
>>Ray
>>
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Received on Fri Jan 11 07:46:37 2002