Re: Pinhole camera from disposable camera?

That's interesting: my first two tries were to just pull off the
lens/shutter and leave the advancer in place. I had a lot of problems with
that setup. I usually found that once I pulled off the back plate, when I
reassembled the camera the film wouldn't say engaged in the sprockets.
Also, it was a pain in the ass to load, since the film started out wrapped
around a secondary spindle, and was taken up into the canister, so you
had to load it in the dark. Eventually, I ended up cutting the left half
of the camera off where that secondary spindle used to be, and taping the
canister to the side of the camera. I use a second, reusable canister as my
take-up, which lets me load with the lights on. Then you just have to wrap
the thing in a few layers of black tape - light leaks can be a problem
with this design.

 Liav K.

> From: Howard Wells <sandwell@earthlink.net>
>
> I think I know what you mean by uncoupling the shutter but I'm not sure.
> And I'm probably telling you something you already know. If so forgive
> me.
>
> Most of the single-use cameras are similar and usually all you have to
> do is remove the shutter "blade" (found in the lens assembly) and leave
> the film advance mechanism (which also cocks the shutter) alone. Tape
> makes the new shutter but you still have to press the shutter release in
> order to advance the film to the next frame. So in that sense I have not
> uncoupled the shutter from the film advance and indeed, have never tried
> to do so.
Received on Sun Jun 2 12:00:15 2002