Re: A camera everyone can make

You've had much better luck than I have with my
various attempts at wood/plastic/etc. film winders!
I've played with dowels, with cut off 120 film spools
with keys inserted to fit the film spool, etc... I
seem to invariably jam halfway through a roll -- if
not the first, then the second of the day... so I've
been mangling cheap cameras instead. I do like the
clicker/counting film advance check idea, though --
I'll try it if I do another scratch built camera!

-- Philip

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

> Phil,
>
> In almost two years of working with cameras with
> this simple wooden dowel
> advance, the only time I had any film advance
> problems was when the camera was
> completely soaked and then dried out, and the film
> stuck to the back of the
> camera.  Even then, once I got it advancing again, I
> shot the rest of the role
> with no problem.
>
( http://www.f295.org/Pinholeforum/forum/Blah.pl?b-text/m-1167401322/
> ) It can
> be a bit of difficulty if you accidentally turn the
> winder in the wrong
> direction, hence the arrow drawn on the end of the
> dowel.
>
> Nick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Philip willarney <pwillarney@yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:52 am
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] A camera everyone
> can make
> To: pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org
>
> > --- 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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