Hi: I'm using a handmade 8x10 wide-angle/panoramic camera. I love the pictures it takes. See http://cyano.usask.ca/pinhole for some of them. It takes pictures with an angle of view of about 120 degrees. It introduces a fair bit of distortion, but I like it.
This camera is shaped like a semicircular cylinder. It has a flat front where the pinhole placed and a circular back. The front is about 9 inches wide thus the radius of the circular back is 4.5 inches. Its about 10 inches tall. The camera was made by cutting a semicircluar base out of wood (4.5 inch radius) using a bandsaw. Cardboard was glued and taped to the front and around the back. The top - which lifts off to put film/paper into the camera - is made with another wooden semi-circle cut an 1/8 large and has 3 inches of cardboard glued and taoped onto it. Inside the camera that are two long narrow pieces of cardbaord glued from the base to the top edge to hold the film/paper in place. One edge on each was cut at a slight angle to from a groove with the back wall of the camera. If you don't have access to a bandsaw to cut wood, I think the entire camera could be made our of cardboard using an exacto knife cardboard glue and tape. Hot glue guns are really nice for this - but not necessary. If you're interested I can put a picture or diagram of the camera on my website. If you can't get a pinhole aperature I'll make you one. Gord On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, heather hyatt wrote: > > --- hello friends! > i was wondering if anyone had specific measurments > for an 8X10 camera and a site from where i can order > the pinhole (aperture)? > thanks, > heather > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ > --------------------------------------------------------- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology hol...@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2 ---------------------------------------------------------
