From Dave Rollans
Category: Camera Hacking & DIY
$25,000 Holga
Holga-Cam of the Apocalypse by RoFi Mike.
Made without any cutting, the “Holga-Cam of the Apocalypse” is the product of my love for low-tech experimentation and obsession with cutting edge technology. There are more descriptions and photos of the camera itself in this set, and photos from the camera in the Holgapocalyptiphotos set.
The camera is built from:
1 – Holga 120N camera body (retail: $25)
1 – Phase One P25 Digital Back (retail: $24,000)
1 – Horseman lens board (thus the current name)
1 – Foot of Black Gaff Tape…
You may ask yourself “why?” That is the wrong thing to ask.
Pictures taken with the camera are here.
Gallery of amazing homemade pinhole cameras
Check out this gallery of amazing pinhole cameras that I think are homemade, probably by a designer named Hyun Kwanghun. But I’m not sure because I can’t read Korean. Very cool stuff though!
Via Chris Keeney
How to modify a Polaroid SX-70 to shoot 600 film
This is a more advanced modification that requires disassembling part of the camera and doing some soldering to switch out a capacitor, but the instructions are clear and have good photos of each step.
Check it out at Holgablog
Conversion: Kodak Instamatic 100 to 35mm film
Here are nefotografas‘s instructions for adapting the very cheap Kodak Instamatic 100 camera to use 35mm film. There’s also a bigger version here.
This looks very easy to do, no major camera surgery required. Nice!
Holga closeup filter chart
Thanks, Kai Yamada!
Francesco Capponi’s “Abracadabra” tophat pinhole camera
Check out Francesco Capponi‘s latest homebrew madness, a curved-plane top hat pinhole camera. You can see pictures of, and photographs made with, the Abracadabra in this set on Flickr.
Capponi has also made pinhole cameras out of a pine nut, a birdhouse, origami, and a tree. Nice hacking!
Related: Weird pinhole camera roundup here on Photon Detector, Thomas Hudson Reeve’s origami/paper pinhole cameras
DIY Polaroid Chocolate film
"g." on Polanoid figured out how to make his own Polaroid Chocolate/Sepia peel-apart film! Apparently you need a B&W positive and a color negative… check out these instructions and example shot, very cool!
NY Times: Vintage Lenses on Digital Cameras
Check out this article on using cheap, old manual focus lenses on current digital SLR bodies at the New York Times.
How to use Fujifilm FI-800GT film in Kodak instant cameras
Check out these instructions for using Fujifilm FI-800GT film in Kodak instant cameras. You can get the film, along with lots of Japan-only analog photography equipment, from Megaperls.