Home made camera:
body: Wooden box
Anterior lens chamber: wooden box cut in half.
Film transport: Holga body cut in half and decapitated. Then reversed facing backwards. the two haves separated and screwed backwards in the back of the black box. Spindle centers separated from original 92mm to 150mm. No film mask used. PVC tape used to avoid film scratch.
Actual image size: 60 X 120 mm.= Mega Panoramic
Film load: 120. -- 4 exposures per roll.
Lens: Graphex Optar 90mm f6.8
Decapitated part of holga reversed and inserted in top of box.
Film advance knob: nylon plumber's screw.
Viewfinder: "Telewide" generic
Tripod socket: Crown Speed graphic
Total price for components: $107.00
Construction time: undetermined because I had to cut down the first version to achieve 90mm exactly.
Fun factor: 1000%
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I scavenged the lens from version 1A to perfectly fit onto camera 9.
I had this old broken Kodak which uses 616 film and looking at it decided to use it with the 1A body:
Home made camera:
body: Wooden box.
Film transport: Holga body cut in half. Then reversed facing backwards. The two haves separated and screwed facing backwards in the back of the black box. Spindle centers separated from original 92mm to 150mm. No film mask used.
Actual image size: 60 X 120 mm.= Mega Panoramic
Film load: 120. -- 4 exposures per roll.
Film advance knob: nylon plumber's screw.
Tripod socket: Crown Speed graphic
Anterior chamber: Kodak six-16 Brownie 1933-1941.
Lens: Diway
Shutter: simple rotary.
Two dirty, but viable 'brilliant' viewfinders.
Size: 8x6x5" - Art Deco Holga
Tags: homemadecamera analog film Kodak Brownie Kodak616 Holga vintage
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Home made camera:
body: disemboweled 1000W Halogen Work Light.
film transport: Mamiya 6X7 roll film back.
lens: CLACK - meniscus / focal length 95mm. f/13 -- 1/30
tripod socket;: work light wall mount.
lens mount: plastic 52mm filter case.
total price for components: $64.00
fun factor: 1000%
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Technical specifications:
camera body: eviscerated Nimslo 3D camera. Dremel cut out the aluminum guts and septa along with that plastic sprocket.
lens: single meniscus 60mm from a Holga 120S. f/8 - 1/100
use of 800ASA film or faster.
angle of view: 62 degrees
anterior wall: in order to achieve 60mm I used the lid from a cedar poker card box "Estes Park" Colorado.
viewfinder: standard tele-wide.
film load: 35mm - transport is by manual lever moving two 35mm frames across each image.
image size: 22 x 72mm panoramic.This was actually the first camera I began with, but it was a challenging task with 4 prototypes. I'm still not satisfied and plan on remodeling it.
once I am happy I lock it all together with screws / foam tape and remove the masking tape.
inspiration: John Evan's book 'Adventures with pinhole cameras' - page 58 features a flickr photographer Dirk Fletcher. When I saw his photos and read that he makes his own cameras,,,, well that was it....
total cost: $48.00
A lot of work and an extreme joy !!!!
it's a bit dusty from having been taken to the farm === fun !!!!
photos to follow -------- - - - - - - - - - -
Tags: homemade camera analog 35mm film Nimslo Holga homemadecamera experimental lomo lomography
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Model 3B because I took 3A apart. Just wasn't right.
Body: Nimslo 3D
Shutter: Holga 1/100 - f/8
Lens: Argus C3 Cintar 50mm
Film advance: Argus Nickel advance knob. I was warned to watch out for those sprockets when evicerating the Nimslo. So I had to transplant a new advance system.
You know that some relationships are not perfect, but fun. I knew I would have trouble covering the panoramic 22 x 72mm image size with this lens' image circle, but decided to go ahead and put her together anyway...
Tags: homemadecamera Nimslo
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