Polaroid Impulse Integral Film Pinhole Camera

From: Omar Alvarez <omar27_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Sat 20 Apr 2002 - 19:39:44 PDT

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Hi Pinholers,
I am new to the discussion group, and although I have been taking pinhole photographs with a Nikkormat and Pinhole Body Cap for about 2 years now, I have recently built an integral film polaroid pinhole camera. You can see a couple of images of it:
http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_camera001.jpg

http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_camera002.jpg

I made my own home brew pinhole with a sewing needle, a pin vise, and some brass shims from my local art/crafts store.

It took some experimentation but I was finally able to totally black out the electronic light sensor to keep the camera's original shutter mechanism open as long as possible.

Since I have a home made pinhole, I don't know what f-stop I am working with, but, as long as I am getting an image on the film I guess it doesn't really matter.

The Polaroid Impulse which I obtained used for $3 is really easy to take apart with destroying the camera. I simply replaced the Polaroid plastic lens with a circular brass pinhole shim and glued it on with black silicon adhesive/sealant.

See the images in the gallery:
http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_polaroid_001.jpg
http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_polaroid_002.jpg
http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_polaroid_003.jpg
http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_polaroid_004.jpg
http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_polaroid_005.jpg
http://www.pinholevisions.org/discussion/upload/gallery2002.php?pic=omar_polaroid_006.jpg

Please give any input as to your own personal experiences with this type of pinhole camera!

Regards,
Omar Alvarez
Miami, Florida USA

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Received on Sat Apr 20 19:37:47 2002