Re: cameras from the grocery

Jack,

Check out the toy stores. They have these small lunch boxes that would make
good pin hole cameras. I was thinking of making some as kids birthday gifts.

Pete

At 03:57 PM 3/11/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Lately, I've been looking for good camera ideas when I'm at the grocery. If
>you are a coffee drinker and into homemade cameras check out the Maxwell
>House Filter Pack coffee box. Wide mouth for easy film swapping, lid is
>hinged blue plastic that probably needs just a few sprays of matte black.
>About 6x5 inches with thin cardboard sides but certainly opaque. Basically
>slap on a pinhole and go. I know tons of items in the store can be used but
>this seemed almost tailor made. I also bought a little Altoids tin and an
>18 oz. Dole raisin box that is trapezoid shaped (tapering to the bottom)
>which could be interesting.
>
>Also a Dremel drill is pretty darn handy for preparing these homemade
>cameras. Great for cardboard (not that that is hard anyway)
>but especially plastic and thin metal. Ensures a nice neat hole (not the
>pinhole itself of course but for the pinhole shim to overlap), great for a
>little grinding, rounding corners, etc.
>
>Jack
>
>
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Received on Tue Mar 12 03:06:49 2002