Film in a pinhole

[k_jupiter]

I bought one of these on eBay for my Mamiya 645.

Paul.

I need to get into a diffrent line of work. 27 bucks for a lens body pinhole? I could turn dozens of these out on the lathe eveyday.

Of course, selling dozens a day is a different story.

tim in san jose

[Donald Qualls]

Yep, mine cost me $3 for the cap (which included a rear lens cap as well as the body cap -- I could combine the two and have a very, very small single-shot pinhole camera!) and took much less than an hour to make, including figuring out the best way to drill and countersink the cap; I could do another in ten minutes plus the time to make the actual pinhole.

Mind you, it'd be a lot easier to sell dozens in a day at half that price...

[Paul Sorensen]

I need to get into a diffrent line of work. 27 bucks for a lens body pinhole? I could turn dozens of these out on the lathe eveyday.

Of course, selling dozens a day is a different story.

tim in san jose

Of course, if you want expensive, you can go to Freestyle where you can get basically the same thing for $43.

I did have the same reaction, I went with it when I saw the prices being asked for laser drilled metal pinholes. That was going to cost me about as much and I was going to have to put it together myself. I appreciated having an idea of the aperture and the fact that it was a nice precise round hole. Oh, and B&H sells the Mamiya cap (which is what this is, an actual Mamiya 645 cap) for $10.

Paul.