Re: polaroid pinhole.

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From: <BenDuross@aol.com>

> Dear All
> I was wondering if could help me.
> I want to do polaroid transfers, and want to know if anyone knows a cheap
an effective way to make a polaroid pinhole camera that can do this.

Ben,
        The easiest and cheapest would be to get yourself either a Polaroid
holder or camera that takes the film you want to use and then you build a
wooden box around the holder and or modify the camera to make it a pinhole
camera. There are always holders and cameras being auctioned at eBay that
can serve the purposes mentioned, these are some currently being auctioned:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1944584085
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1944512695

The main thing is to make sure the holder or camera actually takes the film
you intend to use, as there are older Polaroid holder/cameras that may seem
to take modern film but they will not, so do your homework before bidding.

I bought an oscilloscope camera at eBay, from that purchase I have a shutter
like this http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/G-Claron/Ilex75_4.jpg that I
could use for pinhole , a close up lens I use as paper weight and a holder
exactly like this one: http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/021502/pinhole0.jpg
http://tonopahpictures.0catch.com/021502/pinhole2.jpg that I also converted
to pinhole camera.

Disclaimer: those auctions above are just to give you an idea, I do not know
the persons auctioning that stuff nor I have any interest in them selling
it.

Guillermo
Received on Fri Dec 13 18:24:00 2002