Stunned at how much it ended up costing outside the US. My wife bought mine for me as a gift for $75; basically it has ended up being a way of getting the film holder, a few ready-made pinholes, a pattern for more cardboard replicas for myself as it turned out (I had an ice-laden tree limb fall on my original one and crush it during a long exposure so I ended up building a new one) and for measuring distances and dimensions to build a hardwood version. The camera as it shipped produced an image sharper than almost any pinhole image I've ever seen - and as a pinhole dilettante, I'm more interested in the effects I get for the work I'm doing than I am in the process of building cameras.
Try the 689 film to avoid acute cyan, it really does work well. I also have found that if you're doing Polaroid transfers from the pinhole camera exposures (Pol transfers require 669 film) the natural red/yellow-shift in the emulsion layer balances off against the cyan cast - it's almost helpful. MARK POWER wrote: > > If you don't mind me asking, how much did your camera cost? Going by > past experience, I suspect it's not cheap. I've often found cyan > tingeing a problem with Polaroid film. As for brass shim, I've used > ordinary tin foil and had excellent results. Cheaper than brass and > in keeping with the spirit of pinhole improv! Regards, > Mark in the UK > Total cost was astronomical :-) The camera was $99 in freestylephoto, only way they shipped international was by fedex +$72 and as it came outside EU +$35 taxes. I couldn't find anybody selling it in the EU. I'm thinking now of using just the film holder and for that purpose, as used polaroid 405 holder I saw here in Finland was 220 and as I ordered film and other things, the total shipping per item isn't too bad. That gives me another question: What's the speed in ISO of aph ortho film? Diluted Neutol should be ok for continuous tone, but what is the dilution and developing time approximately? thanks -matti
