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5×4 pinhole camera’s
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Hi,
Does anyone know if there are shops here that sell 5×4 pinhole camera’s? I have seen a place in England, I emailed them, but got no reply. There is also a place in America. If there are places here, that stock them, are they expensive?
I had gotten a box of 5×4 film (Kodak, tri-x I think) as part of a box of mixed film a 4 or 5 years ago, and intended looking for something then, but forgot, and found the film recently when going through a box at the bottom of the wardrobe, I can’t afford the prices of the professional stuff, and would not have the knowledge to use them properly, and found the pinhole stuff online, but was curious if anywhere here sells the pinhole cameras.
Try Zero Image Pinhole cameras, which seem to come in all varieties from 6×6 to 5×4. Silverprint.co.uk stock them, and they seem reasonably priced. Haven’t seen them on sale in Ireland though.
Irishwonkafan here had one up to a while ago, so perhaps he’ll chime in with his experience, as in all, they seem quite interesting.
By the way, used large format kit seems to be quite reasonable to pickup, so don’t rule that out either. Can’t say I have been crazy enough to experiment with anything larger than 6×6, so you’ll have to ask the resident large-format lunatics for more info :)
Damien
Yeah, I had a 6×6 120film version. Very well made and a certain showpiece. I’d suggest getting the deluxe version (woo-hoo) with the cable attachment for the “shutter”. I used the manual version but with such relative short speeds (2 seconds on ISO400 film) you still catch your finger in the shot sometimes.
As for the Zero Image people themselves – well packaged and presented with the little touches such as certificate of authentication etc. I had mine for sale for 2 hours…obvious interest in these things.
AlanYou can make one very easily.
If you need a precision, laser bored hole, you can buy those on ebay,
they’re drilled through thin foil, and will be calibrated for length and size.
they can be glued in front of a larger hole made in the camera.The camera can be made out of anything that will hold a sheet of film-
a shoebox, a biscuit tin, some sewer pipe…
you can make your own holes too, if you want-You can decide your focal length by choosing the distance between hole and film-
If you decide to buy a proper camera, you’re going to need some film holders-
they’ll cost some money too, though not a lot-
if you make one, you can take a much more pragmatic approach to attaching film in the box-
double sided tape, bluetac, card-You can develop film in a two reel Paterson Tank, google ‘Taco method developing 4×5’
btw, if you want to find anything about large format, 4×5 and 8×10 will bring up many more hits than 5×4 and 10×8…This is the cheapest one I came across, haven’t seen it, don’t know anything about it, but it’s cheap-
http://www.novadarkroom.com/product/328/Pinhole_Photography_Kit_.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
irishwonkafan wrote:
Yeah, I had a 6×6 120film version. Very well made and a certain showpiece. I’d suggest getting the deluxe version (woo-hoo) with the cable attachment for the “shutter”. I used the manual version but with such relative short speeds (2 seconds on ISO400 film) you still catch your finger in the shot sometimes.
As for the Zero Image people themselves – well packaged and presented with the little touches such as certificate of authentication etc. I had mine for sale for 2 hours…obvious interest in these things.
AlanI saw those on an American website, some of them were about 100 dollars, and I saw a company in England selling them for 300 sterling, not sure who the English lot were. How did the shots you took turn out?
I know there’d be a difference with pinholes, but as I’ve never used a pinhole before, I thought I’d see if anyone here had used one of the manufactured ones.Cheers.
jb7 wrote:
You can make one very easily.
If you need a precision, laser bored hole, you can buy those on ebay,
they’re drilled through thin foil, and will be calibrated for length and size.
they can be glued in front of a larger hole made in the camera.The camera can be made out of anything that will hold a sheet of film-
a shoebox, a biscuit tin, some sewer pipe…
you can make your own holes too, if you want-You can decide your focal length by choosing the distance between hole and film-
If you decide to buy a proper camera, you’re going to need some film holders-
they’ll cost some money too, though not a lot-
if you make one, you can take a much more pragmatic approach to attaching film in the box-
double sided tape, bluetac, card-You can develop film in a two reel Paterson Tank, google ‘Taco method developing 4×5’
btw, if you want to find anything about large format, 4×5 and 8×10 will bring up many more hits than 5×4 and 10×8…This is the cheapest one I came across, haven’t seen it, don’t know anything about it, but it’s cheap-
http://www.novadarkroom.com/product/328/Pinhole_Photography_Kit_.html” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;
Thanks for the info, I’ll look into this too, I knew somone who made a pinhole camera years ago, out of one of those big biscuit tins, but he used either 5X7 or 10X8 paper for the negative, and at the time, I was more interested in getting the hang of loading film into dev tanks, and I haven’t seen the guy in about 8 years, but I’ll take a look at the website too, see what it says.
Cheers.
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