Ohhhhh goodness . . . I am laughing all through this, Ari! Thank you for this entertainment and finger poke in Pentax's eye! Reminds me of some business transaction I did back in the '80's with a famous manufacturer of high tech electronics. They were announcing their latest and greatest spectrum analyzer and we were anxious to acquire. We asked them what the lead time was going to be and they said the first deliveries were anticipated in 14 months (this at a time when most new designs were delivering in 8 to 12 weeks). I laughed and said - "you realize that we could create a human being in less time than it is going to take you to build this gadget?" None of the suppliers' representatives appreciated my humor. 🤪
This is fantastic. As a learning tool it's great because it really breaks down the components to their absolute basics, and nothing is hidden by abstractions. Well done, Ari!
I built something similar and used it for a wedding shoot... The bride was quite happy with the result, especially after receiving a hefty check from the lawsuit she instigated. I guess some people just don't appreciate art....
@@ShootOnFilm This could be BIG, Ari. Branding is the easy part. In addition to the unique fabrication methods, the gravity shutter needs to be copyrighted and patented before a mega company steals it. Then trademark the name to help protect from others stealing that and impersonating and profiting off your brand name. Securing the raw material rights will be important too so nobody also can have access to them. It’s all about profit and making sure you can sue someone for infringement. This could take a while.
This is really weird because Im designing a camera very similar but use a shutter mechanism from a mamiya and repurposed bellows from an old land camera I patched up and build a simple rail/sliding focus system. Honestly jaw dropped when you made a gravity based shutter I never thought about that, very fascinating and clever with how this turned out! Good job!
Using a ready-made shutter makes a lot of sense. Here, I just wanted to test if I can do it all the way just by using plywood and stuff found at the local small hardware store.
You should definitely put some rubber on the bottom of the shutter so that you can get bounced double exposure! Great Idea for this weeks video. Thanks again, mike
Brilliant and beautiful work Ari! That gravity shutter and sound remind me of the sound of the curtain shutter on the speed graphic! And I am sure with a little effort you could make a revolving back to solve the gravity problem and get portrait orientation. I love the softness of the pics - remind me of zone plate images. Very inspiring.
I liked the creative approach to camera film and image . It reminds me of solving a problem 52 years ago I was having trouble getting sharp pictures with an Olympus PEN FT. TRI-X looked like black and white sand. I read an article on H&W VTE Pan and tried it. I now had a new problem. NO grain at all. So focus became really critical. The next 8x10 that I turned in to my teacher was So Sharp she was certain I had used her 8x10 Graflex camera. I later enlarged another photo to 16 x 24 and usinsing a 10x magnifying lense on those prints no grain . Just sharo super detail or soft out of focus.
That was both ingenious and hilarious at the same time. I don't know if I will order one now or wait for the Pentax, but anyway, I love the character of the photos, cheers from Istanbul.
I just love you, that’s all. ❤ Thanks for making me laugh, giving me endless joy and inspiration, and showing me that anything is possible. This video made my day! Oh, PLEASE shoot some black and white with this camera! The quality may not be up to your standards, but the character is wonderful!
You got me thinking and I'm about to get out the hot glue gun after I head down to the hardware store . .(my wife wants to know why I'm not busy painting the fence) . . .but I think it should be possible to effectively change the shutter speed by changing the width of the opening in the shutter (?) Not sure if I've thought this through but it does seem that enlarging (or reducing) that slot opening would have the same effect (e.g., increasing or decreasing exposure time) even as the slide itself is moving at the same speed. And in keeping with the revenue production desires of this project you could offer these individual slides as "options" not included with the basic camera. To enhance their value and promote their sales, the "standard" shutter as supplied should be almost totally useless.
Ari, Some positives were that I thought the pictures were probably better or at least on par with many pinhole cameras. And I happen to love my pinhole camera. Also the sound of the shutter was amazing and not much different than my Bronica S2a. I think maybe the only negative comment came from RUclips. During my viewing of your video, the commercial from RUclips said, “Get ride of stuck poop fast!” I’m not kidding. That was the first sentence in the commercial. Now I’m not sure if that was intentional or just a coincidence?? But I’ve been around for 7 decades and with the passing of each year I believe in coincidence even less. But I suppose we can think positively 😁I for one really liked your camera and think in your upcoming videos you will be able to showcase your creative talents by using that very camera. As always, I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the time you take putting them together and filming them.
Very funny and like, a bee that flies, we ride bikes, all laws are ignored, physics, optics, use of rare elements, assembled by non tecnicians, in a Far away place. Make sure Final assembly is in Europe/Scandinavia. (Oh Add testing and packaging). Love the article and it will get better. Newer lens. I'm aiming on pin hole camera with wooden cigar box. Thanks, Tak-Tak, better paint in a matt-black like monochrome..Bravo! Brilliant!
Well, those Pentax punks (Punx?) may not have to make a new lens or new shutter; just the box part...you've done all 3! I guess you can affix the film holder vertically, or use some slim-cut PVC pipe to create a rotating back, and your gravity-shutter design will still work. Thank you as always! Brilliant 🥰
Are you kidding? Those photos are gorgeous and I love the camera and if you had Arri Alexa on the other side, I'd take this one! Just crazy and creative af, Sir! Beautiful work!
Great video! I built my own 4x5 camera back in February, but it's not an SLR, and I slightly cheated by using a large format lens with a leaf shutter. But it's made of wood (cameras that don't float are useless) and painted black as well. With all the high-tech cameras around us, we tend to forget that at its core, a camera is just a dark box with a hole.
First of all, thank you Ari for another inspiring and entertaining video! No joke, I am thinking if I can replicate this on my own, with few mods attached, ah, reinventing the wheel. But I don't see any pictures from the new camera on your Instagram, I'm sure such marketing savvy person as yourself would not miss the opportunity for further promotion for this new product ;)
Love it! I've been thinking about making something about this caliber in 8x10 but with maybe a little better lens. No focus on mine so I won't need your exotic mirror, just a rope with a knot so I know where to position my subject.
It's really great! Great fun for a retiree that every amateur photographer should try! I have a bit too many cameras to build another one, but I can, for example, convert it into pinhole cameras. Regards 😀
Excellent idea. Didn't think of that. Was totally fixated on a ready-made mirror. A prime example of a designer falling in love with his own design and driving the entire production team on the wrong tracks!! Next time!
Ari you made my sunday with your presentation of The Ariflex! Now just work on that gravity deflector for the super pro model - making horizontal shutter movement possible - and you will have improved your economic situation drastically ;-)) Have a great sunday!!
My plan is to move a large object, say Jupiter or Saturn close to Earth -- sideways -- so that the gravity would also work sideways! How hard can it be?
I hope you used good glue! My trusty Shen Hao 4x5 had glue fail! Only after 20+ years and it failed! I had to use better glue in repair. They had glue, special glue and super glue at hardware store. You probably guessed I picked the best one, super!
@@ShootOnFilm If you go to the moon you will have a slower shutter speed. So that could be a way of adjusting shutter speed. I wonder if the moon Hasselblads had faster shutter speeds because the shutter blades were only one sixth of the weight but the springs were the same? Too complicated, I'll let you figure it out.
“the pictures are not that good” nooo, the pictures looked great. I’ve made heaps of similar cameras but mostly from foamcore board and tape. They would be slightly cheaper meaning they would be even more profitable for your business and still produce interesting images :-)
Yes, this was just a prototype, so in the final assembly, we will cut all possible corners to make it cheap while still maintaining a high selling price. Business basics 🙂
Wow. Can I buy your prototype?… because we all know when you go into production the value of your black paint prototype with the designers hand written drawings and calculations will be worth a mint. Sadly, once you take it on the boat and snap a few shots the cameras value will most likely soar out of my price range.
Immensely enjoyed your video! I’m sure the next generation of your film camera will have a few improvements, new features, perhaps the lens could be replaced with high quality lenses!? Cheers!
@@ShootOnFilm you may glue two watch glasses and fill the inside with water or, even better, Wesson vegetable oil which has similar refractive index to glass (pyrex). Then you may also consider going after the Film industry too...
@@captainreza1 A neat idea. However, I'd need to take pictures very soon after filling it up as the lens has a huge hole for the aperture papers and would leak empty fast. But speed is good! ;-)
Great camera design! To shoot in landscape mode, maybe adapt some rubber bands on the shutter so that the shutter will function without gravity. Also, I'm wondering how the mirror was set up (calibrated) so that when focusing the user and the film plane are both in focus simultaneously. Can't wait to see the "Ariflex MkII".
:-). I thought about the rubber band already and actually speculated on that in the video. Removed the segment as these are getting too long already. I calibrated it by using an extra 4x5 ground glass that I temporarily attached to where the film goes. Then focused on it and then compared it to the viewfinder. And to make this possible I created the view finder so that I can move it up and down. No need to adjust the mirror as I can adjust the paper-ground-glass. Close enough 🙂
I think you might enjoy the vlogs by Nicole Small. She does black and white film photography, both traditionally, and by making her own equipment and materials to capture the photographs. It reminds me of some of your posts, but with a different twist, of course.
I haven't thought about it. Something flashy -- Ari is a bit weak, don't you think. How about Shutter-Shaffer. Can we maybe discuss this? All great things have two names: Mercedez-Benz, Rolls-Royce, etc. And, there is an app for that www.namesnack.com/guides/two-word-business-names
Oh man! That is pretty cool!! It got me thinking of what I would build, in fantasy since I am ignorant to what it takes to build a camera. I would build an SLR with interchangeable lenses that can take BOTH 35mm and 120 film. And like my Minolta Alpha (Dynax) 7, I can switch films mid-roll, and when I return that roll to the same frame where I left off. I would also make a TLR for 120 and 4x5 film, and somehow I would make them look and feel good to use. What would your dream camera be, real or fantasy, or do you already have it?
1/15 is such a slow shutter speed there's the problem of camera shake if shot handheld. It would be easy to add a tripod mount and a simple catch to hold the shutter so a cable release could be used, I believe the image quality would improve. Still the pictures are surprisingly good for such a rudimentary camera. You forgot to mention one important step when using this, remove the dark slide just before exposure and replace it immediately afterward as the camera probably is not completely light tight so the shorter the time the dark slide is out the lesser the risk of light leaks. Also, nice work on altering the song enough the copyright algorithms won't catch it but it's still perfectly recognizable by human ear.
@@RustyKnorr Not meaning to be in any way patronizing etc, I could certainly not afford to, just throwing ideas in the air and also partly "going along with the joke" suggesting improvements for the "final production version". Sorry if I offended you in some way, I just like to "brainstorm" about interesting ideas aloud, I don't mean in any way to indicate I could have done things better. English is not my first language (actually I'm from Finland just like Ari) so I may sometimes come across differently than I mean to. The dark slide thing was not directed to Ari, as he obviously knows it perfectly well, but to anybody else who might like to try something similar.
great video! I thought of making my own film camera as well xp but I planned on using an existing shutter like a Prontor 500 I got laying around ;P or for a smaller 35mm format I'd use some toy plastic lens and a self made spring shutter like in a holga camera :D
Maybe version 2 will use rubber bands to power the curtain shutter, allowing both landscape and portrait mode. Great video. I think you have effectively shamed Pentax.
I thought about that and had a segment about it in the video. Took it out -- because didin't implement it. But that's exactly the way to go. Maybe I can sell rubber bands as a "vertical pack"? ;-)
Before watching the video, I thought you were going to describe building a pinhole camera for last weekend's Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD). But no, you're Ari, you had to build an SLR. And get photos that are better than your lens gives you any right to...
What a wonderful idea: a camera for everyone. Everyone will want one, everyone will have one. And that's a problem. Your design uses gravity to move the shutter. Gravity, one of the fundamental forces of the universe! And the millions, maybe billions of enthusiastic shutterbugs madly snapping away with your Camera's shutter... They're using it up! Wasting our most precious resource (next to our precious bodily fluids.) Sooner or later we'll run out of gravity! Then what, Mr. Smart Man? When we're all floating away on the slightest breeze do you imagine that your ill-gotten wealth can save you?
I thought about that! And when that happens I’ll be a rich as Elon and build myself a wooden rocket and fly to Mars. For there is a lot of fresh gravity left!!!😊
Go back to the hardware store and pick up a small pack of Everbilt Steel Flat-Head Thumb Tacks in red... you can increase the value exponentially by adding a red dot.
You mentioned that this camera cannot be used vertically. It's not a flaw of the camera. You correctly identified this as a shortcoming of gravity and it should immediately fixed by a physicist! 😂
Best photography video of the year nominee.
Ha haa! You think? ;-)
Ohhhhh goodness . . . I am laughing all through this, Ari! Thank you for this entertainment and finger poke in Pentax's eye! Reminds me of some business transaction I did back in the '80's with a famous manufacturer of high tech electronics. They were announcing their latest and greatest spectrum analyzer and we were anxious to acquire. We asked them what the lead time was going to be and they said the first deliveries were anticipated in 14 months (this at a time when most new designs were delivering in 8 to 12 weeks). I laughed and said - "you realize that we could create a human being in less time than it is going to take you to build this gadget?" None of the suppliers' representatives appreciated my humor. 🤪
Marvelous joke: make a human being😅
😁😁
This is fantastic. As a learning tool it's great because it really breaks down the components to their absolute basics, and nothing is hidden by abstractions. Well done, Ari!
Thanks, thanks. It was actually pretty fun to do! :-)
This is called dedication! Love it! Best video of the year...and thanks for making us laugh in a crazy world.
I built something similar and used it for a wedding shoot...
The bride was quite happy with the result, especially after receiving a hefty check from the lawsuit she instigated.
I guess some people just don't appreciate art....
Yeah. Art is born through agony, pain, and disappointments. You need to live to appreciate it! ;-)
The ‘Ariflex’. Not to be confused by the cheap Arriflex cine camera.
Genius build!
Great branding. Let's negotiate -- could you run my marketing?
@@ShootOnFilm This could be BIG, Ari. Branding is the easy part.
In addition to the unique fabrication methods, the gravity shutter needs to be copyrighted and patented before a mega company steals it. Then trademark the name to help protect from others stealing that and impersonating and profiting off your brand name. Securing the raw material rights will be important too so nobody also can have access to them. It’s all about profit and making sure you can sue someone for infringement.
This could take a while.
This is really weird because Im designing a camera very similar but use a shutter mechanism from a mamiya and repurposed bellows from an old land camera I patched up and build a simple rail/sliding focus system. Honestly jaw dropped when you made a gravity based shutter I never thought about that, very fascinating and clever with how this turned out! Good job!
Using a ready-made shutter makes a lot of sense. Here, I just wanted to test if I can do it all the way just by using plywood and stuff found at the local small hardware store.
You should definitely put some rubber on the bottom of the shutter so that you can get bounced double exposure! Great Idea for this weeks video. Thanks again, mike
Excellent idea!!
Brilliant and beautiful work Ari! That gravity shutter and sound remind me of the sound of the curtain shutter on the speed graphic! And I am sure with a little effort you could make a revolving back to solve the gravity problem and get portrait orientation. I love the softness of the pics - remind me of zone plate images. Very inspiring.
Yeah, it is surprisingly usable. I overachieved and surprised even myself. Ha haa 🙂
That's an incredible video. The shutter sounds just like a french guillotine.
Now we just need to find a marie antoinette? ;-)
Thank you so much for such a creatively fun episode !! Once again you made my day. Bless 🕊
I liked the creative approach to camera film and image .
It reminds me of solving a problem 52 years ago I was having trouble getting sharp pictures with an Olympus PEN FT. TRI-X looked like black and white sand.
I read an article on H&W VTE Pan and tried it. I now had a new problem. NO grain
at all. So focus became really critical.
The next 8x10 that I turned in to my teacher
was So Sharp she was certain I had used her 8x10 Graflex camera. I later enlarged another photo to 16 x 24 and usinsing a 10x magnifying lense on those prints no grain .
Just sharo super detail or soft out of focus.
Best video I’ve seen in awhile. I’ll be painting all my cameras black this weekend.
That’s an excellent idea. Maximize the value!
That was both ingenious and hilarious at the same time. I don't know if I will order one now or wait for the Pentax, but anyway, I love the character of the photos, cheers from Istanbul.
Ha haa! Thanks. This is for real -- Pentax may just be talk!
I just love you, that’s all. ❤ Thanks for making me laugh, giving me endless joy and inspiration, and showing me that anything is possible. This video made my day!
Oh, PLEASE shoot some black and white with this camera! The quality may not be up to your standards, but the character is wonderful!
Thanks, thanks. Yes, I was planning to do that but just ran out of time. The Instax film was faster this time :-)
One of the best gear related videos. The shutter idea is awesome and the pictures are so cool. Super creative 👍👍👍
🙏🙏 and thanks for watching!!
Loved this, and I think the images turned out well. They have a mysterious, painterly quality about them.
Thanks thanks. Yeah, lo-fi aesthetics? ;-)
You sold me on the fact that it floats! And I was impressed that you used color film!
I added color for marketing purposes.
Now that's a fantastic project. And that shutter sound, wow
Ha haa! This was definitely worth of the effort for the sound alone. So purposeful, so solid!
You got me thinking and I'm about to get out the hot glue gun after I head down to the hardware store . .(my wife wants to know why I'm not busy painting the fence) . . .but I think it should be possible to effectively change the shutter speed by changing the width of the opening in the shutter (?) Not sure if I've thought this through but it does seem that enlarging (or reducing) that slot opening would have the same effect (e.g., increasing or decreasing exposure time) even as the slide itself is moving at the same speed. And in keeping with the revenue production desires of this project you could offer these individual slides as "options" not included with the basic camera. To enhance their value and promote their sales, the "standard" shutter as supplied should be almost totally useless.
😊 that’s exactly my plan with the shutter packs. Different size openings. That’s how you get different speeds. Thanks for watching!
@@ShootOnFilm We need a trade name . . . . thought of PentAxe maybe ILike-uh or No-hassel-blad
Ari, Some positives were that I thought the pictures were probably better or at least on par with many pinhole cameras. And I happen to love my pinhole camera. Also the sound of the shutter was amazing and not much different than my Bronica S2a. I think maybe the only negative comment came from RUclips. During my viewing of your video, the commercial from RUclips said, “Get ride of stuck poop fast!” I’m not kidding. That was the first sentence in the commercial. Now I’m not sure if that was intentional or just a coincidence?? But I’ve been around for 7 decades and with the passing of each year I believe in coincidence even less. But I suppose we can think positively 😁I for one really liked your camera and think in your upcoming videos you will be able to showcase your creative talents by using that very camera. As always, I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the time you take putting them together and filming them.
I believe there are some AI and algorithms at RUclips that select appropriate commercials for each video. This time, spot on :-)
Really cool!!! I have made pinholes but never one this complex!!!
Thanks for watching. The basics of an SLR are actually rather simple. Usability then, that's a different beast!
Very funny and like, a bee that flies, we ride bikes, all laws are ignored, physics, optics, use of rare elements, assembled by non tecnicians, in a Far away place. Make sure Final assembly is in Europe/Scandinavia. (Oh Add testing and packaging). Love the article and it will get better. Newer lens. I'm aiming on pin hole camera with wooden cigar box. Thanks, Tak-Tak, better paint in a matt-black like monochrome..Bravo! Brilliant!
Scandinavia, Switzerland, Monaco or the Vatican are all possible assembly locations as we will not compete with price but with prestige!
This is your best episode so far - and so funny!
Thanks thanks! This was a fun project to do. Totally a waste of time in a good way!
Great camera Ari , Henry Fox Talbot would be jealous.
Ha haa. 😊
Ari this is brilliant! Love yr sense of humour and ingenuity. I'd like to order one, but I want mine with flash and 10 second timer!
That would be hugely expensive. Our production line has some severe limitations :-). But thanks for watching.
Those images are way cool. Great work!
Thanks! And making this camera -- that was fun!!
This is pure ART... Thanx for this!
Also, the pictures are AWESOME!
:D
Ha ha!! ARTs and crafts, maybe?
Well, those Pentax punks (Punx?) may not have to make a new lens or new shutter; just the box part...you've done all 3! I guess you can affix the film holder vertically, or use some slim-cut PVC pipe to create a rotating back, and your gravity-shutter design will still work. Thank you as always! Brilliant 🥰
Yes, or you can always ask the model to lay horizontally?
@@ShootOnFilm 😂That's a great excuse to get things horizontal! Shutter cable may be in order...
Ever entertaining and quite acceptable results love it
Best 10 minutes I spent today. I wish I was that good!
Oh, thanks. Did you see how badly I made the joints and how crude was my sawing? 🙂
@@ShootOnFilm It's not your camera building, but your amazing ability to communicate and entertain. Thanks again!
Are you kidding? Those photos are gorgeous and I love the camera and if you had Arri Alexa on the other side, I'd take this one!
Just crazy and creative af, Sir! Beautiful work!
Thanks for watching. I'm starting to get worried about myself -- that I enjoy stuff like this. I'm rapidly deterioration to pre-school art-and crafts.
Great video! I built my own 4x5 camera back in February, but it's not an SLR, and I slightly cheated by using a large format lens with a leaf shutter. But it's made of wood (cameras that don't float are useless) and painted black as well. With all the high-tech cameras around us, we tend to forget that at its core, a camera is just a dark box with a hole.
I agree. And building tools yourself forces you to think about some fundamentals in the process. And that is always good!!
No need to apologize for that! Great stuff as always!
Thanks 🙏. And thanks for watching!!
First of all, thank you Ari for another inspiring and entertaining video! No joke, I am thinking if I can replicate this on my own, with few mods attached, ah, reinventing the wheel. But I don't see any pictures from the new camera on your Instagram, I'm sure such marketing savvy person as yourself would not miss the opportunity for further promotion for this new product ;)
I'll take some B&W pictures for Insta later. Color is so vain! ;-)
Love it! I've been thinking about making something about this caliber in 8x10 but with maybe a little better lens. No focus on mine so I won't need your exotic mirror, just a rope with a knot so I know where to position my subject.
Bigger is always better. Go for it!!
you go boy! 🤣you sure know how to entertain! Would you believe I have a lens with aperture blades like that called Waterhouse.
Now that you mention -- I've heard of them, yes. Like little metal rings sort of ... ?
It's really great! Great fun for a retiree that every amateur photographer should try!
I have a bit too many cameras to build another one, but I can, for example, convert it into pinhole cameras.
Regards 😀
Yeah, pinholes are easy to make and a lot of fun!
Since you made the viewfinder from baking paper, why not make a larger mirror with aluminium foil? :D
Excellent idea. Didn't think of that. Was totally fixated on a ready-made mirror. A prime example of a designer falling in love with his own design and driving the entire production team on the wrong tracks!! Next time!
Ari you made my sunday with your presentation of The Ariflex! Now just work on that gravity deflector for the super pro model - making horizontal shutter movement possible - and you will have improved your economic situation drastically ;-)) Have a great sunday!!
My plan is to move a large object, say Jupiter or Saturn close to Earth -- sideways -- so that the gravity would also work sideways! How hard can it be?
@@ShootOnFilm This might create a rare opportunity for photographs" in the series "famous last pictures"...
Awesome. That is really cool. I'm going to build one. That thing looks like it would be awesome to play with. :)
And the sound!!! ;-)
I love it. A laugh well enjoyed. Great photos too….. considering.
Thanks thanks. Well, those photos .....
@@ShootOnFilm - It is the artist behind the camera that matters more than the camera.
One if your best Ari :). Think about the marketing potential of a floating SLR camera.
Thanks. Floating and allmost all biodegradable materials!
I hope you used good glue! My trusty Shen Hao 4x5 had glue fail! Only after 20+ years and it failed! I had to use better glue in repair. They had glue, special glue and super glue at hardware store. You probably guessed I picked the best one, super!
I am impressed! Bravo! 🤩
Ha! Arts and crafts for preschoolers! ;-)
I reckon if you put a well know LF lens on it, it would be impossible to tell whether it was taken on a Sinar or yours. Superb!
Yeah, it's the lens that would make a difference. But they didn't have Sinars or Tessars at the hardware store :-)
Something better? This was fascinating.
:-) Well .... but thanks!!!
Amazing 😂
I'm waiting for the Kickstarter campaign
Ha haa!!
Always inspiring Ari.
:-) Thanks for watching!
Love it, inspired to make one myself.
Go for it! Pretty fun!
You are an absolute genius! I'm gonna find a tall building and try gravity powered flight. I'll let you know how I get on.. Or maybe not..
:-) Please, don't use all gravity. Leave some for me!
@@ShootOnFilm If you go to the moon you will have a slower shutter speed. So that could be a way of adjusting shutter speed.
I wonder if the moon Hasselblads had faster shutter speeds because the shutter blades were only one sixth of the weight but the springs were the same? Too complicated, I'll let you figure it out.
“the pictures are not that good” nooo, the pictures looked great.
I’ve made heaps of similar cameras but mostly from foamcore board and tape. They would be slightly cheaper meaning they would be even more profitable for your business and still produce interesting images :-)
Yes, this was just a prototype, so in the final assembly, we will cut all possible corners to make it cheap while still maintaining a high selling price. Business basics 🙂
Wow. Can I buy your prototype?… because we all know when you go into production the value of your black paint prototype with the designers hand written drawings and calculations will be worth a mint. Sadly, once you take it on the boat and snap a few shots the cameras value will most likely soar out of my price range.
We can always discuss, but the price is going rapidly up as we speak! 😅
Brilliant! Love it. Maybe a 1/4-20 tripod socket? Oh.. and how about a flash? 😅
Flash -- yes. Tripod socket ---hmm. Tripods make photographs stiff, dont they? ;-)
Tack en helt underbar kreativ film!
Tack tack!!!! :-)
Immensely enjoyed your video! I’m sure the next generation of your film camera will have a few improvements, new features, perhaps the lens could be replaced with high quality lenses!?
Cheers!
Thanks thanks. I want to control the lens business, too. Manufacturing my own lenses to maximize profits :-)
@@ShootOnFilm you may glue two watch glasses and fill the inside with water or, even better, Wesson vegetable oil which has similar refractive index to glass (pyrex).
Then you may also consider going after the Film industry too...
@@captainreza1 A neat idea. However, I'd need to take pictures very soon after filling it up as the lens has a huge hole for the aperture papers and would leak empty fast. But speed is good! ;-)
Great camera design! To shoot in landscape mode, maybe adapt some rubber bands on the shutter so that the shutter will function without gravity. Also, I'm wondering how the mirror was set up (calibrated) so that when focusing the user and the film plane are both in focus simultaneously. Can't wait to see the "Ariflex MkII".
:-). I thought about the rubber band already and actually speculated on that in the video. Removed the segment as these are getting too long already.
I calibrated it by using an extra 4x5 ground glass that I temporarily attached to where the film goes. Then focused on it and then compared it to the viewfinder. And to make this possible I created the view finder so that I can move it up and down. No need to adjust the mirror as I can adjust the paper-ground-glass. Close enough 🙂
If you add a red dot to it, it will be an even more valuable black paint edition.
Excellent idea. I'll do that right away!
Amazing!
I think you might enjoy the vlogs by Nicole Small. She does black and white film photography, both traditionally, and by making her own equipment and materials to capture the photographs. It reminds me of some of your posts, but with a different twist, of course.
Cool. Let me check them out!
Who cares about the quality of the photos, that black paint makes it awesome. Great job! 🤣
Exactly. This is a collectors item!
Brilliant - I thought the images had a beauty unachievable from a digital camera! Where can I order mine from?
It will be available at least at the Harrods in London and at the airport in Dubai. Depends on a possible distribution deal with Luis Vuitton!
Great Video!!! You are so imaginitive and talented!!!What will you name the camera: "Ari"???
I haven't thought about it. Something flashy -- Ari is a bit weak, don't you think. How about Shutter-Shaffer. Can we maybe discuss this? All great things have two names: Mercedez-Benz, Rolls-Royce, etc. And, there is an app for that www.namesnack.com/guides/two-word-business-names
Oh man! That is pretty cool!! It got me thinking of what I would build, in fantasy since I am ignorant to what it takes to build a camera. I would build an SLR with interchangeable lenses that can take BOTH 35mm and 120 film. And like my Minolta Alpha (Dynax) 7, I can switch films mid-roll, and when I return that roll to the same frame where I left off. I would also make a TLR for 120 and 4x5 film, and somehow I would make them look and feel good to use. What would your dream camera be, real or fantasy, or do you already have it?
I think a 4x5 TLR would be very very high on my list!!!
....YESSS, blackpainted ist VERY IMPROTANT !!!🐈⬛🖤🏴
It is!!!
Damn impressive!
Haa! Thanks for watching!
Cool black. It's the Pro model.
It is!!!
Wonderful..
That's a stretch :-) But it was fun!
Can you get a remote shutter release as an add-on?
But absolutely. Won't be cheap, though. ;-)
1/15 is such a slow shutter speed there's the problem of camera shake if shot handheld. It would be easy to add a tripod mount and a simple catch to hold the shutter so a cable release could be used, I believe the image quality would improve. Still the pictures are surprisingly good for such a rudimentary camera.
You forgot to mention one important step when using this, remove the dark slide just before exposure and replace it immediately afterward as the camera probably is not completely light tight so the shorter the time the dark slide is out the lesser the risk of light leaks.
Also, nice work on altering the song enough the copyright algorithms won't catch it but it's still perfectly recognizable by human ear.
It was 1/50. And thanks for watching! 😊
Wow…I’m sure he really needed your sage advice. 🤦♂️🤣
@@RustyKnorr Not meaning to be in any way patronizing etc, I could certainly not afford to, just throwing ideas in the air and also partly "going along with the joke" suggesting improvements for the "final production version". Sorry if I offended you in some way, I just like to "brainstorm" about interesting ideas aloud, I don't mean in any way to indicate I could have done things better. English is not my first language (actually I'm from Finland just like Ari) so I may sometimes come across differently than I mean to.
The dark slide thing was not directed to Ari, as he obviously knows it perfectly well, but to anybody else who might like to try something similar.
Someone was having to much fun last week LOL
Indeed. It was an 8 day week!
great video! I thought of making my own film camera as well xp but I planned on using an existing shutter like a Prontor 500 I got laying around ;P or for a smaller 35mm format I'd use some toy plastic lens and a self made spring shutter like in a holga camera :D
Those sound like seriously good plans. But can you make the look as good as my camera ;-)
@@ShootOnFilm im afraid it will not be as professional looking as yours ;P a zorki to a leica xp
Maybe version 2 will use rubber bands to power the curtain shutter, allowing both landscape and portrait mode. Great video. I think you have effectively shamed Pentax.
I thought about that and had a segment about it in the video. Took it out -- because didin't implement it. But that's exactly the way to go. Maybe I can sell rubber bands as a "vertical pack"? ;-)
next week, Ari will modify a Nokia mobile phone to take 35mm film... The question is if it will use a lens, or a simple pinhole....🤣
Take a phone with a lens :-)
A neckstrap would transform the useability of your camera and, like, double the value
I agree. That's a good additional value. I'm thinking $699.
🤣😂🤣 Brilliant!! You should auction the camera to buy some more film!! 🤣😂
Not a bad idea! But isn't that a bit like selling your car to buy gas? ;-)
@@ShootOnFilm Build another one!! 😀
Love it! 😅
Thanks for watching!!!
I did like that. Iguess you had a hard day's night afterwards. I need to get on with my camera building.
It was a lot of fun -- not sure if worth the trouble, though :-) But thanks for watching!!!
A facility to slide from top and side, then you're unbeatable..
Rubberband!
Before watching the video, I thought you were going to describe building a pinhole camera for last weekend's Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD). But no, you're Ari, you had to build an SLR. And get photos that are better than your lens gives you any right to...
Ha! When you just jam too cheap magnifying glasses together you cannot expect a lot!
Brilliant :)
Ha!! Thanks for watching! Brilliance is debatable!
Watch and learn #pentax :-)
Indeed. You lazy ass ….
What a wonderful idea: a camera for everyone. Everyone will want one, everyone will have one. And that's a problem.
Your design uses gravity to move the shutter. Gravity, one of the fundamental forces of the universe! And the millions, maybe billions of enthusiastic shutterbugs madly snapping away with your Camera's shutter... They're using it up! Wasting our most precious resource (next to our precious bodily fluids.) Sooner or later we'll run out of gravity! Then what, Mr. Smart Man? When we're all floating away on the slightest breeze do you imagine that your ill-gotten wealth can save you?
I thought about that! And when that happens I’ll be a rich as Elon and build myself a wooden rocket and fly to Mars. For there is a lot of fresh gravity left!!!😊
Just read today Pentax is going to build a camera. You lit a fire under their ass.
It's like raising a child: bribery, flattery, and threatening will always work!
Go back to the hardware store and pick up a small pack of Everbilt Steel Flat-Head Thumb Tacks in red... you can increase the value exponentially by adding a red dot.
Absolut madlad.
Brooooooh
You mentioned that this camera cannot be used vertically. It's not a flaw of the camera. You correctly identified this as a shortcoming of gravity and it should immediately fixed by a physicist! 😂
I already called Buzz Aldrin. I mean, to know if this would work in space!
It kills me a lot of these shots look better than my polaroid 600 shots from a sun 660.
Ha haa! But Polaroid shots have often so much character!
Add a tripod socket.
That shutter wouldn’t work with a tripod 😊
😂 The best!
:-) Thanks thanks!!!
fantastic lol
😅 Thanks
my favorite part: con: the pictures are not that good :) I thought they were pretty nice
:-) Well, they have a bit of children's art & craft in them ....
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Fantastic video, this camera will make millions... he he he... the problem is that maybe Pentax will copy it, because they should be out of ideas...
I'll sue!!