S. M. Bower (yo soy el pinhole caballero)
Handcrafted Pinhole Camera
This summer, I was fiddlin' around and designed a pinhole camera. I sent the plans home to my dad, who's quite the woodworker, and he put this thing together over a few weeks. I ordered the pinhole from a company that laser cuts them - it's 0.25mm in diameter. I'll have to find my original calculations, but the f-stop for this thing is like....f/165 or f/180 or f/300 something crazy. It can take 6x9, 645, or 6x6 format images by inserting shims into the back of the camera. I took a test-shot of a couple of rulers from a known distance and calculated that the field of view is 95 degrees horizontal x 75 degrees vertical.
This is built entirely out of maple. He put black pigment on the inside to absorb light and kill any minor light leaks. My dad toleranced this thing down to the 10th of a mm, it's built quite solidly. The film viewing window is sealed with a red 52mm lens filter.
What an awesome gift.....THANKS DAD.
Pictures coming soon.....they are hanging above my bathtub (which reeks of d-76 and stop-bath right now)
Handcrafted Pinhole Camera
This summer, I was fiddlin' around and designed a pinhole camera. I sent the plans home to my dad, who's quite the woodworker, and he put this thing together over a few weeks. I ordered the pinhole from a company that laser cuts them - it's 0.25mm in diameter. I'll have to find my original calculations, but the f-stop for this thing is like....f/165 or f/180 or f/300 something crazy. It can take 6x9, 645, or 6x6 format images by inserting shims into the back of the camera. I took a test-shot of a couple of rulers from a known distance and calculated that the field of view is 95 degrees horizontal x 75 degrees vertical.
This is built entirely out of maple. He put black pigment on the inside to absorb light and kill any minor light leaks. My dad toleranced this thing down to the 10th of a mm, it's built quite solidly. The film viewing window is sealed with a red 52mm lens filter.
What an awesome gift.....THANKS DAD.
Pictures coming soon.....they are hanging above my bathtub (which reeks of d-76 and stop-bath right now)