Jack, Check out the toy stores. They have these small lunch boxes that would make good pin hole cameras. I was thinking of making some as kids birthday gifts.
Pete At 03:57 PM 3/11/02 -0600, you wrote: >Lately, I've been looking for good camera ideas when I'm at the grocery. If >you are a coffee drinker and into homemade cameras check out the Maxwell >House Filter Pack coffee box. Wide mouth for easy film swapping, lid is >hinged blue plastic that probably needs just a few sprays of matte black. >About 6x5 inches with thin cardboard sides but certainly opaque. Basically >slap on a pinhole and go. I know tons of items in the store can be used but >this seemed almost tailor made. I also bought a little Altoids tin and an >18 oz. Dole raisin box that is trapezoid shaped (tapering to the bottom) >which could be interesting. > >Also a Dremel drill is pretty darn handy for preparing these homemade >cameras. Great for cardboard (not that that is hard anyway) >but especially plastic and thin metal. Ensures a nice neat hole (not the >pinhole itself of course but for the pinhole shim to overlap), great for a >little grinding, rounding corners, etc. > >Jack > > >_______________________________________________ >Post to the list as PLAIN TEXT only - no HTML >Pinhole-Discussion mailing list >Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? >unsubscribe or change your account at >http://www.???????/discussion/ >
