Philosophy
A fine through the lens 2-1/4 X 2-1/4 camera. Pricey and nearly extinct now.
Yes, you could make a pinhole camera from a shoebox. In fact, as a highly skilled (and likely highly attractive) Gadget Lab reader, you could probably chop up some cardboard and glue it into the shape of a real camera. But would you first screen-print the corrugated cardboard, and then cut the sections with a precision that almost matches that of the Hasselblad camera your model mimics? No, you wouldn’t. But Kelly Angood would.
Kelly is a prop and set designer, and also makes replicas of real objects. The Hasselblad you see here is part of a wider collection including an Olivetti typewriter and a full-sized, functional autophotomat booth.
The Hasselblad is a working pinhole camera, designed to take 120 roll-film, which will give you some lovely big negatives to scan and play with. This one can be bought as an art piece, for an undisclosed price, and comes with two hand-processed prints and a making-of book.
The $50 Hole: Photojojo's Body-Cap Pinhole Conversion
The Battlefield: DIY Three-Hole Pinhole Camera
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Also, just Google "pin hole cameras" and a wealth of information will be available.
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Philosophy
A Hasselbland pin hole camera
A fine through the lens 2-1/4 X 2-1/4 camera. Pricey and nearly extinct now.
"Beautiful Cardboard Hasselblad Almost as Well Made As Real Thing"
by
Charlie Sorrel
March 29th, 2011
Wired
by
Charlie Sorrel
March 29th, 2011
Wired
Yes, you could make a pinhole camera from a shoebox. In fact, as a highly skilled (and likely highly attractive) Gadget Lab reader, you could probably chop up some cardboard and glue it into the shape of a real camera. But would you first screen-print the corrugated cardboard, and then cut the sections with a precision that almost matches that of the Hasselblad camera your model mimics? No, you wouldn’t. But Kelly Angood would.
Kelly is a prop and set designer, and also makes replicas of real objects. The Hasselblad you see here is part of a wider collection including an Olivetti typewriter and a full-sized, functional autophotomat booth.
The Hasselblad is a working pinhole camera, designed to take 120 roll-film, which will give you some lovely big negatives to scan and play with. This one can be bought as an art piece, for an undisclosed price, and comes with two hand-processed prints and a making-of book.
The $50 Hole: Photojojo's Body-Cap Pinhole Conversion
The Battlefield: DIY Three-Hole Pinhole Camera
Six-Month Pinhole Exposure Shows the Sun's Travels
DIY Card Pinhole Camera Overpriced — We Find Free Version
Also, just Google "pin hole cameras" and a wealth of information will be available.
- The Overhead Of Contemporary Life
I was listening to an NPR discussion concerning the entry of the music service Spotify into the U.S. market. The basic service is free, but to have the capabilities that any real music fan would want, there is a monthly fee -- of course. It led me to...
- Foresight And The "electronicam"
Television network DuMont's Electronicam, used on the The Honeymooners and Captain Video, was a revolution in film recording. Wikipedia... Electronicam was a television recording system that shot an image on film and television at the same time...
- Elsa Dorfman And Huge Prints
Bob Dylan was in Lowell with the Rolling Thunder Review, and Allen was staying at our house. Harvey (Silverglate) and I went to the concert. I brought my camera. Although the concert folks were very fussy about no cameras, the Dylan people let me bring...
- Wac's Topographical Moon Map
NASA... Global topography -- a boon to lunar scientists and explorers around the world! Today the LROC team releases Version 1 of the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) topographic map of the Moon. This amazing map shows you the ups and downs over nearly the entire...
- Polaroid Archives
The First Polaroid Model 95A Camera Almost everyone’s heard the story of how Polaroid instant film cameras were born. For nearly a decade before it would create cameras, Polaroid manufactured eyewear, film and plastics. In 1944, Land’s daughter reportedly...