RE: Has anyone tried this paper pinhole camera?

Hi Tracy,

Here is a link to the Dirkon camera page on David Balihar's site.
The camera looks surprisingly (or maybe not, on reflection) like the
Lomographics paper pinhole.
http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html
There are downloadable plans on this page.

A local photgraphy professor (Peter Martin, Univ. of Minnesota) has
his beginning photo students make and use a pinhole camera from the
Dirkon plans. He uses a special paper (and I can't remember the name
it) that is black, opaque and available a local art stores. He told
me that one big reason for using the Dirkon is that half of the
students who begin the class don't own a 35mm SLR and the Dirkon gets
them started with an inexpensive, usable camera.

Makes 'em think and learn, too, I'll bet.

Tom Miller

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> I was doing research for resources for a pinhole polaroid
> article I was
> writing for my artzine, Tub Legs, and found this:
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> http://shop.lomography.com/paperpinhole/
>
> Has anyone tried this out? I'm intrigued and thinking of
> ordering it.
>
> Traci Bunkers
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