Lomography - Konstruktor DIY Kit

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When I put my phone to the viewing hole to take a picture, it blocked more light coming into the box. We found this works best in bright sunlight – anything less and we found the image through the viewfinder to be fuzzy and indistinct, like we were viewing it through frosted glass. Impossible Polaroid paper camera kit Paper model Another non-functional offering, the Impossible Project’s Polaroid Classic DIY Paper Camera Kit is a set of 6 different miniature paper cameras you can assemble, and a “set of mini faux Polaroid images that develop under moderate heat. It’s actually just a black plastic 1-gallon paint can you can punch a hole in to make a classic paint can pinhole camera.

Compared with a 120 TLR it is absolutely tiny, which does make it a bit of challenge to handle if you go out in the middle of winter and have to wear gloves like me.There are even close-up and macro lens attachments available, and a magnifying chimney for the viewfinder. But the finished product includes a pinhole lens board, and will accept standard large format lenses in a Linhof-style lens board. Sure, I might have preferred for more of the challenge to come from complex design rather than a vague set of instructions, but it felt good to finally have the completed camera in my hand. Step 1: Paint the removable lid of the canister completely black on both the inside and the outside. My f-stop is 221 so I will use this as a sample value to determine the information we need to calculate exposure times.

The plan was simple: plug in the HQ camera board to the Raspberry Pi, program the system to take photos using a button, and then place all of the components into the gutted body of a toy, 35mm camera I found in my basement. The process of constructing the inner workings of an SLR and understanding how it all fits together is ultimately an interesting, albeit very fiddly, one. As long as no other light can enter the box, the light that shines in through the pinhole will create an image on the film. It’s also sold under the Powershovel name, and includes two interchangeable lenses and an alternate back designed to produce light leaks (or would that be more light leaks? But that's almost expected with most Lomography cameras — the unpredictable results are why you shoot this way, not a reason to be disappointed.Get your hands on a tripod and the Woodsum camera can work in low-light settings without a flash too – just expose the film for longer! Sharan SW-35 35mm panoramic pinhole A DIY pinhole is one thing, but the Sharan SW-35 is designed to make wide panoramic negatives. TL;DR: Make an old (preferably irreparably-broken) film camera into a night light hipsters will pee their skinny jeans over. Oh, and don't forget: never open the camera before winding the film back, to prevent exposure to light. Since the pinhole is round, the light passing through it forms a cone-shape on the inside of the camera.

And if you want to go beyond assembling cameras from kits, you can try this pattern for a laser-cut acrylic camera, or 3D print one like the terraPin 2HT stereo pinhole camera. In fact, Woodsum comes absolutely unassembled and your first photography project is, in fact, to build the camera! The Konstruktor F allows you to demystify the process of analogue photography by building your camera from the ground up.As a young teenager, I graduated to doing my own decals on plastic model airplane kits, and eventually to assembling and painting my own Warhammer 40,000 figurines.

Digital Camera World is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Photographing with film is a pretty hands-on process to start with, but for decades, photographers have experimented with homemade and customized tools for making their work more unique or doing something no one else has done. I'll do my best to answer any questions but please try to keep this in mind when reading; thinking and problem solving are required.Features: The Konstruktor is a customisable DIY 35mm SLR Camera with a fully interchangeable lens system. However, there are multiple beams of light that enter the pinhole, and while they're all traveling in straight lines, they're not all perfectly horizontal to the camera. It’s like being given a toy as a child and finding you can’t actually play with it or test it out straightaway, as batteries aren’t included.