Re: A camera everyone can make

--- Nick Dvoracek <dvoracek@uwosh.edu> wrote:

> Whenever I’ve given a pinhole photography workshop,
> at the end I
> always get asked where the materials can be acquired
> and how the
> participants can continue.

Nice design -- I've built my share of cardboard
pinhole cameras (120 & 35), and I'll admit that I
never got my homemade wind mechanisms to work
reliably. I got tired of always carrying a changing
bag for the inevitable film jam.

So I've mostly used cheap plastic 35 mm cameras from
thrift stores -- I can usually find them for a dollar
or two, and they've almost always got a better wind &
rewind mechanism than any I can build. I open them up
(usually a couple of screws), take out the shutter and
lens, and tape in a pinhole, using tape or the sliding
lens cover as a shutter. Cheap & cheerful, and if
someone can handle a screwdriver and tape, they're on
their way (and these cameras are cheap enough to buy a
couple to break learning how to convert them!).

-- PW

 
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Received on Fri Feb 23 22:36:15 2007