As well as taking regular photos at the Blowout, I continued to experiment with my kustomised Pinhole camera, the Pinholaroid. The results are posted below.
This one suffered a fair bit od damage on the emulsion; I think it was ******* down with rain at the time I developed it.
the Pinholaroid is exceptionally wide angle; equivalent to 13mm on a 35mm format. Here's a photo of the beast.
VERY interesting pix. You should post them in the Friday art show! A few questions? Are you still using the Polaroid films? The camera appears to be fairly old so I was thinking what films were still available? I'm hoping to do a pinhole digital camera some day. Thanx, Gary
The camera is a rebuilt Polaroid Colorpack 80. Hacksaw off the front, recap with double matt board, add in a tripod bush, and make a shutter ***embly. Oh, and sand down a piece of aluminium can and drill the finest hole thru it. It's a piece of piss. You can see instructions at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uf5rRI0Ouw&feature=related from the very talented Michael C Pastur. The cameras take Polaroid pack film, which is discontinued, although there are still boxes of it available. Fuji still make an excellent version of it too. AL
Al, Thanx for the info / links. As a former "artsy-fartsy" photog, I found his camera conversion neat, a clever guy. My cl*** project pinhole camera (circa 1974 in college) was a cheapo twin lens reflex Japanese copy of a Rolex. It worked ok, but I never got anything super nice. I only tested a couple of rolls of 120 in it. But it was neat because I still could use the other lens to help compose my shots with. I may try this again. I also have a pinhole camera book / body cap deal for use on 35mm camera bodies burried in the back room some place... perhaps it would work with a digital camera? Later, Gary
That's so cool, I'll have to search the second hand shops for a camera and try it myself now. Scotty.
sellers on trade me flog off these Polaroid colorpaks for $1 to $20. getting the film is the hard bit!
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