How-to: 120 folding camera pinhole conversion
Posted 3 April, 2006 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Pinhole
Paul Beard posted a how-to for converting an old folding 6×9 120 Foldex 20 camera to use a pinhole instead of a lens and adding a cable release. Even if you’re an old hand at pinhole conversions, you may want to check out his elegant cable release design.
"After kvetching about the pictures of other camera HOWTOs, I figured I better do a good job on my own.
"Read on for some pictures and text on how to convert an old 120 roll film camera to a pinhole camera, as well as adding a cable release…"
Read instructions at paulbeard.org
Via MAKE Blog
Comments
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paul
April 4, 2006 at 12:54 am -
Elegant? Are you poking fun?
;-)
Thanks for the comment: I appreciate it. I’m not what was more fun, the barnyard engineering of the cable release or the table-top photography documenting it.
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Nicolai
April 4, 2006 at 4:44 pm -
No, not at all!
It’s simple, cheap, is unobtrusive enough that you can still fold your camera, and looks like it gets the job done with minimal fuss. Sounds like a winner to me!
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paul
April 7, 2006 at 8:10 pm -
You should see the tripod socket I added: a T-nut with the teeth pulled off, mounted under/through a hole drilled through the bottom plate, liberally augmented with JB-Weld.
Now I should only get blurry images intentionally.
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