Shikihan made this insane 6×17 "Limousine" pinhole camera out of a Holga! You can see two test shots made with it in Tokyo here and here on Flickr.

She’s made a bunch of other cool pinhole cameras (and makes great photos with them), check them out!

Check out freerobotpants‘ simple and effective hack for adding spool tension to Diana toy cameras: tape!

I crinkled the crap out of it to hopefully get lots of light bouncing around in different directions, and lined the camera, shiny side out. The irregular vignette is because I wasn’t very careful about leaving the edges of the light path clear.

I expected the lowered contrast, but was thinking I might get some random specular-type highlights. Nope. Of the whole roll, this is the only frame that had a visible artifact (the white wavy form near the top). But this does show that you can easily control the shape of your vignette, just take the back off and put some crap around the square hole you can see the shutter through.

If you care, this is Kodak T-Max 100 developed in Diafine.

There is a fairly common shutter issue with Holga toy cameras that creates a slight double exposure in the bottom right corner of the frame (see above).

See what causes it and find out how to fix it at Squarefrog’s excellent Holga resource site, Holgas Online.

Chris Keeney talks to pinhole/Holga/Polaroid experimental photographer Therese Brown as part of his excellent ongoing series of interviews with fine art photographers.

You can see Brown’s work at her Web site, ThisIsWhatISee.com as well as on Flickr.

This one’s a must-read, so do it at ChrisKeeney.com.

Prizes and stuff:

First prize – Lomography Holga 120CFN package
Second prize – Holgon Strobe Flash
Third prize – 5 rolls of Agfa RSX II 200 ISO slide film

All you need to do to be in with a chance of winning is to fill in the following form and click submit. The competition closes on Sunday October 7th 2007. Winners will be notified by email the following week. The information you submit is purely for my own interest, I would never pass on any of it to anyone!

I know Squarefrog online, and when he says he won’t give out your information, I believe him.

Enter here!

Camera walk-through

Photographic results and analysis (loads of pictures!)

The camera isn’t generally available yet, but eBay user uranium99 has them for US $49.99 + $19.99 shipping (to the US) from Hong Kong.

Check it out at Beep Beep Gallery in Atlanta, GA, US!

Don’t miss the book launch/exhbit for Erin Dorbin‘s new book, Kalamazoo in Photos: A Photographic Catalogue of Kalamazoo’s Most Unique Places. The event is 5–9pm, Friday, 7 Sept., 2007 at the Art Cons Gallery in the Park Trades Center, Kalamazoo, MI, US.

There’s a larger, more readable version of the announcement here.

About the book, Dorbin says:

This sixty-eight-page photo book focuses on the Kalamazoo region. It showcases the many local spaces I have visited with my camera over the past few years. I have features on bowling alleys, motels, and other unique landmarks in Kalamazoo County. However, you don’t have to be a resident of the area to appreciate the book. In fact, Americans nationwide can enjoy this collection that details the shift from places rich with character to that are visually uninteresting.

I used a number of cameras in the creation of this photographic collection including the Holga, Mamiya C220, Yashica Mat, Brownie Hawkeye Flash, Canon Rebel G 35mm SLR, Hasselblad and Diana toy camera. The book includes a camera index in the back to show the reader which camera was used to take each image.

It’s 7 × 7 inches, full color, softcover, and costs US $20.