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Published: 2007-09-10 01:53:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 3413; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 50
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I built a pinhole camera over the weekend to try and use some strange expired polaroid film I purchased a while ago.Out of 10 shots, 9 jammed and thus got ruined.
This is the only one that came out with anything.
Overall, the camera was a dud. But it was a fun exercise nonetheless.
VERY expired Viva iso160 film.
Home made pinhole camera.
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thank you.
I'm also quite fond of it.
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These are the kind of color fields I get lost in. Beautifully composed and vibrant.
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I like it!...can I ask how'd you go about making the pinhole?
Cheers
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you're very welcome ma'am
; )
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Pinhole cameras can be the most annoying thing in the world sometimes, but you got a great image, good for you!
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Thanks darling!
This particular pinhole was a total disaster, but that was mainly due to my complete stupidity when it came to the film. I reckon I'd have a whole lot more luck if I were to give this another shot.
That being said, I'm in love with the result I got out of this.
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Yeah, that's really worth the effort! For the record, I went through 3 cameras before I got even one image out of them (they were paper pinholes), so you're lucky!
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I'm setting up a darkroom in my bathroom pretty soon, so I'm keen to try some paper pinholes out.
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Really? A word of advice: don't buy a kit. They are full of light leaks. Buy one of those sturdy photo boxes, they work infinitely better.
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oh, I was just gonna build it myself, bit of cardboard and some tape and black paint.
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Awesome! Send me results when you're done, alright? I'd love to see them!
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I will surely post them when I'm done!
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I have featured this lovely work in my journal 
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quite interesting when colour burn and play with what they see -- later days
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I like this photo even though it didn't come out as it was suppose to. It's like a strange abstract.
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this is such a treat for the eyes
The colors are quite amazing, I really love this.
: )
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well ive done the exact same thing with an old 600 camera i had and i gutted all the electronics and was left with the banjo part of it then i just used the origonal shutter the only problem was i never got a really clear image (altho some really neat ones) and i had to pull the film out of the camera and put it through a roller myself which worked well cuz i never had a split
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ps here are my results
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You're so DIY it makes my brain hurt... This atually looks really interesting.
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one in ten is good
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what kind of back?
No back.
I made a camera out of cardboard and attached the rollers from my spectra system camera, which is why it jammed at such.
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I guess that kinda constitutes a back...
you should hack up an old 100 series camera like an old 300 or 400 family folding guy... that way you don't have to worry about the motorizedness and you get tabs...
oh and the film is slightly cheaper
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Well I only got one packet of this particular kind of film.
It expired in 2000 and cost me 5 bucks.
When I made the pinhole, it wasn't motorized at all, it was just the front section of my polaroid that I taped to the box. I then fed the taps through the rollers.
I'm gonna upload some photos of the camera itself.
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i actually really love the colors... it almost looks like a water color painting... i'm curious how you made a pinhole camera with a polaroid. hmmm.
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I'm thinking I might upload some pics that I took of the camera I made.
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fuck me thats cool, looks like a psychotropic landscape. Im sort of curious as to what the original subject was.
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My cat is undeveloped in the white area where the chemicals didn't reach.
It was taken in my living room.
I can sort of make out the window frames.
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