A few months back, I decided I needed a challenge. I had found a PDF of plans online for a cardboard pinhole camera, so I set about making one. It involved a lot of modification, fine tuning etc., but it's now at the stage where it's ready to test.

Being a packaging designer has it's advantages. Also having access to this little programme helped no end.

This (obviously) is the internal view. I have also made a mask and brackets to support 35mm film.

Will post photos when I've figure this sucker out. :) (By the way, it uses medium format film.)

Edit: More info in my Blog.

Olympus Pen F ~1963

Olympus Zuiko Zoom 100-200, 1:5

Rotating shutter 1- 1/500 and B, flash synch at all speeds.

Half format SLR, using a quite complex optic arrangement, to avoid the traditional bulge on the top plate.

This is a half format camera, one gets twice the number of exposures, per roll of 135 film, with half the size. Holding the camera horizontally the exposures have portrait orientation.

Design of Yoshihisa Maitani, designer of other iconic Olympus cameras as the OM-1 and the XA.

Format: 1 gelatin silver photoprint

Notes: Photographs received from London in Sydney during the first experimental transmission over the Beam Wireless Picturegram Service, 1934

From the collections of the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales www.sl.nsw.gov.au

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