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Homemade multiple-aperture pinhole "blender" camera

Posted March 24, 2007 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Pinhole

Another killer from bricolage.108, the man who brought us the outstanding double-sided lens and pinhole bi-cam and DIY half-frame camera mods! This one’s a three-aperture, curved film plane pinhole camera, which is a homemade version of the Pinhole Blender. Step-by-step instructions with plenty of illustrative photos here at bricolage.108′s blog. Nice work, again!   Cristal [...]

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DIY half-frame camera mod

Posted January 31, 2007 in Camera Hacking & DIY

Check out this sweet half-frame camera modification by bricolage.108! If I understand the annotated version on Flickr correctly, he’s put in a sliding mask that blocks off half the frame at a time and a cord that you pull to re-cock the shutter without advancing the frame. So the sequence is: make an exposure, move [...]

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Double-sided lens and pinhole bi-cam

Posted November 11, 2006 in Camera Hacking & DIY + Pinhole

Flickr member bricolage.108 hacked a 35mm trashcam into a double-sided lens/pinhole monster. He writes: If using a normal film roll this camera takes redscaled ["redscale" is where you shoot the film backwards, so the light gets filtered through the antihalation layers before hitting the emulsion and turns the image red/orange or yellow, depending on the [...]

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