Completely homemade folding pinhole camera

gabriel531 writes:

Here’s my most ambitious pinhole project yet – a 6×6 camera for 120 roll film with a bellows that can be pulled in to 50mm and extended to 90mm. The camera also has two pinholes – a 0.27 mm for the 50mm setting (equals f185) and a 0.36 mm pinhole for 90mm (equals f250).

This camera looks sweet! Unlike most folders, this one is built from scratch, rather than sticking a pinhole on an existing camera body. Great work!

The rest of this blog, Captured Starlight, is full of pinholey goodness. Check it out!

Read plans at Captured Starlight or discussion about it at f295 Pinhole Forum

Thanks to Paul Beard for the heads up!

User manual for vintage folding cameras

Mark O’Brien has written a generic instruction manual for using old folding cameras. Contains heaps of example pictures and should be enough to get you started.

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Folding cameras are usually quite reasonably priced, are easy to carry, generally have good optics, and can provide an inexpensive way into medium format. While this PDF tells you how to use them, certo6.com has a good feature/shooting experience overview for many of the more common folders.

Via Nelson Foto Forums