Vaidotas Mikšys
Arkliukas - back side
Pinhole camera "Arkliukas" ("Little Horse" in Lithuanian). Named it so, as when I used it for the first time I used a 120 film 6x9 Horseman back on it.
It's just a Sinar rear standard with a lens board adapted to take different pin holes. The holes are magnetic, interchangeable, I made a whole set of them and I'm using them also in my 8x10 camera (d.i.y. called "Meoda", but that's another story).
Right now I prefer using the Grafmatic 45 back as it takes 6 4x5 films, because that makes less stuff to carry for a hike. Often I just go jogging with it in a hand, you never know when a good photo might come. Some of the photos that I show in Flickr were made during the jogging. In this configuration it's a very wide-angle camera. I can reduce it using the bellows and another standard, attaching the standards together with a hexagonal rod.
To make the camera unique I use a (broken) very unique "2013 Lithuanian presidency of the Council of the European Union" key-chain belt to carry it. So that makes it a unique camera as I don't think it's very easy to get a used "2013 Lithuanian presidency of the Council of the European Union" key-chain belt, and then have an idea to use it for a pinhole camera.
Arkliukas - back side
Pinhole camera "Arkliukas" ("Little Horse" in Lithuanian). Named it so, as when I used it for the first time I used a 120 film 6x9 Horseman back on it.
It's just a Sinar rear standard with a lens board adapted to take different pin holes. The holes are magnetic, interchangeable, I made a whole set of them and I'm using them also in my 8x10 camera (d.i.y. called "Meoda", but that's another story).
Right now I prefer using the Grafmatic 45 back as it takes 6 4x5 films, because that makes less stuff to carry for a hike. Often I just go jogging with it in a hand, you never know when a good photo might come. Some of the photos that I show in Flickr were made during the jogging. In this configuration it's a very wide-angle camera. I can reduce it using the bellows and another standard, attaching the standards together with a hexagonal rod.
To make the camera unique I use a (broken) very unique "2013 Lithuanian presidency of the Council of the European Union" key-chain belt to carry it. So that makes it a unique camera as I don't think it's very easy to get a used "2013 Lithuanian presidency of the Council of the European Union" key-chain belt, and then have an idea to use it for a pinhole camera.