--- Trent Dowler <tdow...@grnco.net> wrote: > Phillip, > > Great article! Thanks for sharing it, and ...
You're welcome! I spaced, meant to send it out before world pinhole day, but didn't.... > Which camera did you craft the pinhole camera > from? The cheap ones ... I visit thrift stores and look for the real simple 35mm "give-away" type cameras. The one's I've had the best luck with are the plain "flat" ones that don't try to look like an SLR and have a sliding lens cover (which usually works for a pinhole shutter). I check to see if they're assembled with screws (either inside the camera, or on the outside ends) so they're easy to open up & modify. I usually find these for a couple of dollars. I've been seeing a number of "vivitar focus free PN2011" lately, and I've been grabbing these for the next time I do this. Another one that I see from time to time is the "Bell & Howell 35J" -- this one, though cheap, is built like a "real" camera and has more a more robust shutter mechanism that looks like can be modified -- I haven't tried yet, but I think I can make it give a "B" speed instead of "Instant". On the real simple cameras, I usually just remove the lens & shutter completely. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com
