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    Download a camera!

    Download a camera!

    Linatree invites you to download, print, cut and build your pinhole.

    A pinhole is a camera that uses a very small hole, as if made by a pin instead of a lens, for light to enter and form an image on the film or other light-sensitive medium.

    You can use a PAN film from Ilford or Neopan 100 from Fuji.
    You can also use any 35 mm film.
    These guys created a PDF template and instructions for making a paper pinhole camera, plus an animated guide to help build it.

    Let's try building one and post our results here, what do you think? Sounds like a fun little project.

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    woa ima check this out
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    this is pretty cool. so how would you develop and print the photos? just as you would a normal 35mm film?

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    When I was teacher Math/Physics, I had my young students make a pinhole camera.
    Yes you need traditional chemistry but to start 9and to make things more easy) you can just put some photographics paper inside and use that as film. Develop this negative photo and after drying, put it face-to-face to another piece of photopaper to make a positive contactprint.
    Note, for the pinhole it is best to take thick aluminium foil, make a pinhole, use fine sandpaper to flatten it, put the needle again in the pinhole, so you get a nice sharp round pinhole.

    Now the next question is: how to build your own camera from an old linear flatbed scanner.
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    i used to make pin hole cameras in tech, useing a quality street tin, worked pretty well, also used photographic paper as the film if u know what i mean.

    i can just see someone turnjing up with that

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    this is how I started off in photography my first camera was a old check box

    paint it all black make sure it seals nice and tight when closed and make a hole on one side and then put a small strip of photographic paper on the other side. We had access to a dark room so we did that end ourselves. Worked pretty well. If i find a new dark room to play in I will do it.
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    This is pretty cool. I'm going to make one and try it out on my next scuba trip.

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