{"id":596,"date":"2007-04-24T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T15:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/ck-custom-mintycam-pinholes\/"},"modified":"2007-04-26T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T19:58:46","slug":"ck-custom-mintycam-pinholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/ck-custom-mintycam-pinholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Keeney offers custom MintyCam pinhole cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/blogimg\/mintycams.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"MintyCam pinhole camera\" class=\"border\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Experimental photographer and camera builder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriskeeney.com\/\">Chris Keeney<\/a> (whom I recently had the pleasure of <a href=\"http:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/chris-keeney-interview\/\">interviewing<\/a>) is now offering custom, hand-made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriskeeney.com\/photography\/pages\/ck_mintyCam.html\">MintyCams<\/a>, which are pinhole cameras made from Altoids mint tins.<\/p>\n<p>Keeney writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor those of you that are interested in the mintycam, but aren&#8217;t sure you want to go to all the trouble of painting, cutting, etc., you can now pay a small price for me to make one for you. Since this is a labor of love, I&#8217;ve decided to keep the cost low, while charging enough to cover my material costs.<\/p>\n<p>You get:<\/p>\n<p>1. Altoids tin that is painted with primer and flat black paint.<br \/>\n2. A professionally drilled CK pinhole (about 250-300 microns)<br \/>\n3. Loading and unloading instructions<br \/>\n4. CK tips &amp; tricks for taking better mintycam photos<br \/>\n3. Take-up spool and silver metallic turn key<br \/>\n4. Certified Mail \/ Shipping<br \/>\n5. Custom stencil painting of your initials and the creation date\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not bad for US $28! You can order <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriskeeney.com\/photography\/pages\/ck_mintyCam.html\">here<\/a>, as well as get instructions for building your own.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ck3\/135485226\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/48\/135485226_0d056bbf69_d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" alt=\"Whale Spring by Chris Keeney, MintyCam pinhole camera photo\" class=\"border\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Whale Spring<\/i> by Chris Keeney, MintyCam pinhole camera photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experimental photographer and camera builder Chris Keeney (whom I recently had the pleasure of interviewing) is now offering custom, hand-made MintyCams, which are pinhole cameras made from Altoids mint tins. Keeney writes: For those of you that are interested in the mintycam, but aren&#8217;t sure you want to go to all the trouble of painting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[335,1165,1990,1357],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinhole","category-product-news","tag-chris-keeney","tag-mintycam","tag-pinhole","tag-pinhole-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photondetector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->