Alternate Photography - Cameras I've Built
Alternate Photography -
Cameras I've Built
This was the 1st
non-Quakers Oats Camera I built. The Bird House was fun.
It takes a piece of 4x5 film/paper and has a changeable Pinhole!
My
Second camera has an interesting feature.
I built it to be extendable. What I expect to do (some day) is to build additional
extenders to turn it into an extreme telephoto. Without its 25mm extender, it
has a 25.4mm focal length. I use a 0.016" pinhole in it, as do I do in
all of my PH's.
Since I was having trouble
controlling the exposure with a 25mm Focal Length, I decided to try a shutter.
It produces an interesting circular picture on the film. For an example check
out WinterDreams..
This
is my current 2 1/4 camera. It takes a 52mm filter and is stable on its own
w/o a tripod. It uses 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 graphlex film holders, has a focal length
of 35mm, 78 degree field of view at f86. I wrote the exposure conversions on
the top for an easy, no-calc reference.
I built this to enable me to use
different pinholes on my Graphics and larger cameras. I have a 6"x6"
lens board that I've modified to take the 4"x4" lens boards.
It's hard to put a shutter on this design...oops so we'll take another stab
at that one, though I've managed to cfart one out of
black photographic tape that is a good temporary solution.