Pix of your home-built cams here please

[werra]

Yesterday hacked 5x7 foamcore point-and-shoot together:



Some more at http://www.nahui.eu/5x7ps/

Straight into the sun shot using 1979 expired Kodak Vericolor II type L:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/werra/6028809335/

[Steve Smith]

Nice. The fact that we can get lenses with built in shutters and film holders with built in dark slides means that we can get great results with the most simple of cameras, as your foam core example shows. All we really need is a box to keep the darkness in with a lens at one end and the film holder at the other.

This makes it easy for any of us to make a camera and is doesn't matter if we are master craftsmen or bodgers with gaffer tape!


Steve.

[moki]

a box to keep the darkness in

Hehe, I love that wording. All the people who try to keep the light out, probably understood something wrong

I built a few boxes myself and it wasn't easy to collect enough darkness, put it inside and then seal the whole thing. Most of these boxes have a hole insted of a lens, though. This one's an old Kiev magazine (the camera was broken beyond repair) with with a 35mm/175 pinhole. And no, I didn't throw it into a mirror to test its sturdiness

[bobmercier]

My plywood/gaffers tape masterpiece. This version had a wax-paper
ground glass!

https://picasaweb.google.com/1145398...eat=directlink

The image was at f32 and the lens didn't quite cover. I'm on the lookout
for a proper lens but am not ready to spend $500! I like the idea of a cheap
russian process lens like the Industar 37, and a Packard shutter...

[Steve Smith]

Seems to work o.k. What lens is currently on it?


Steve.

[werra]

I'm on the lookout
for a proper lens but am not ready to spend $500! I like the idea of a cheap
russian process lens like the Industar 37, and a Packard shutter...

Or 260/9 Konica Hexanon GRII, if you like wider view. I found mine dirt cheap, EUR35 (~US$50). Hard to beat price/performance.

[Jeff Searust]

[Steve Smith]

Wow. that looks bomb proof!


Steve.

[McFortner]

Now that looks nifty! Makes me want one of my own.

[polka]

This was my first "Panoramische Oberlicht Loch Kamera.

Using 120 rollfilm formed as a cylinder of 80mm diameter.

Giving 4 pictures of 55x175mm per roll

Horizontal angle : 250°

Paul

First picture : the camera is open, ready for loading a roll
Second picture : 2 views of closed camera ready for shooting :
- left : backside with 2 film spooling buttons
- right : frontside with shutter and viewfinder