Unique Wooden Camera Build - Can't Believe the Photos it Takes!
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This was one of my favourite projects, I had a blast both making it and using the finished camera. I reckon it's going to get some use.
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This was one I've my favourite projects, I had a blast both making it and using the finished camera. I reckon it's going to get some use.
I think you might be able to get rid of the ring and get less glare if you would also blacken the inside of the hole in the shutter. Imho, the ring is reflected light from the shop on that surface. It could also be done by having a 100% chamfer on the inside of the hole in the shutter, leaving no inner surface where light could bounce. (even though it will still scatter light without blackening)
@@lukearts2954 Thanks, I'll try to blacken the inside and see how it goes. :)
@@PaskMakes FWIW, 'Black 4.0/3.0/2.0' by Stuart Semple over at Culture Hustle would give the best light absorption. You should also take a look at his other paints/etc., as I'm sure you could have a *LOT* of fun with them! (One artist used Black 2.0 to make 'cracks' just a few millimetres deep look like they have infinite depth. It is an incredible effect.)
Cheers!
I must apologise Neil, I hit the dislike by mistake but I soon put it right 😉😉
what makes your ca glue so special?
I wish there was a love button instead of a like. I have so much I wish to say, and I don't have the words. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your joy of photography, of making, and creating. Thank you for bringing beauty to a world that seems to be letting it slip away. Thank you for letting us in your shop, for sharing your superior skills, for showing us that even when mistakes happen it isn't the end of the world. Thank you.
No worries at all Vickie - I can feel the love, thank you! :)
I'm sure you hear this kind of thing all the time, but you are really the kind of person I aspire to be. I consider myself a maker, and I watch a ton of youtube content from yourself and other makers. Nobody, least of all myself, gives off the vibe of "I just love to make stuff" like you do, and it is so inspirational to me. It doesn't matter what you're making, you always put your whole self into it. For me, if I make a mistake in the middle of the project it really hurts my motivation, but for you it almost seems like you get excited because it means you get to spend more time on the project.
Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Thank you! I definitely don't get excited about mistakes but I think I do deal with them pretty well. Glad you find the videos inspiring. :)
I appreciate your honest reporting of your errors. As I watched you create increasingly complex steps, I was thinking "I hope he doesn't blow it at this point. Every step forward makes having to start over more risky." You taught me that mistakes can be corrected as you go, and there is no reason to give up if you are willing to make corrections." A great life lesson for me and so many others in this day and age. Thank you!
I had a couple of moments where I had the 'hope I don't blow it here' thoughts, especially routing the recess in the curved front. It all worked out though - glad you enjoyed it. :)
I'll never meet Neil and gain nothing by saying this. Men like Leonardo DaVinci, skilled in multiple arts and fields, gave rise to the phrase "renaissance man." Neil truly is one of those. I really don't think there's much he can't do.
would you like to see a huge RC wooden tank? ruclips.net/video/acgGayd5ubA/видео.html ?
I really agree with you!
Love your work Neil - the camera turned out as a work of art. Kind of reminds me of the beautiful craftsmanship that went into those early brass instruments such as laboaratory microscopes and their cabinets of early 20C.🙂
Thank you very much - I'm just enjoying myself with these projects and having fun. Glad you appreciate them. :)
I would agree, a true Polymath
as an analog photographer myself i realy enjoyed this build!
One tip: use different tongs for each chemical bath, your chemicals will last longer. If fixer touches developer it will be ruined very quickly!
Thanks for the tip Ruben, I definitely appreciate any advice. Glad you enjoyed the build. :)
So the fixer still on the paper that gets dipped into the developer has no effect?
😂🤣
No matter what you do you will still transfer chemical from one to the next.
@@Crewsy There will be chemical transfer, but only in one direction. Using the same tongs can introduce fixer (last step) to developer (first step) which would ruin the developer. No need to be so smug and wrong about someone posting a tip.
@@Crewsy developer to stop: no problem, stop to fixer: no problem, fixer to developer: problem.
Don’t know what you try to be smart about here.
If you got fixer on undeveloped paper then you are doing things wrong i’m afraid.
And if you try to re-develop a fixed photo, il’d suggest you take some lessons in photography.
A wise man is always learning.
I love the progression of Neil’s channel.
Make things from scrap wood, get more viewers, make some money.
Buy cool tools, get more viewers refurbishing cool tools, make more money.
Use cool tools to make even cooler projects, get more viewers, make more money.
Where will this lead to? I don’t know but I’m watching to find out.
Love it all, thx Neil.
Thank you! Things have definitely progressed around here and although I make a living from doing this, that's really all it is. I really do appreciate the support as that's the only reason I'm able to do this. :)
Besides just being absolutely astounding it brings to mind an old saying “if you are going to do something, do it well”. Instead of a cardboard box with a hole you now have a heirloom.
I *Love* to rescue old lenses and cameras due to the odd quality you can get with them. That first shot is, to me, absolutely wonderful. Never seen such a weird yet beutiful "mistake" before. Really inspiring stuff for someone that started out digitally.
The light artifact you are getting is probably a reflection from the bevel in your shutter assembly or from the reflected "edge" of the pinhole itself! Black it out, see if it changes. Awesome build! I have been shooting/developing my own film for decades. I love digital as well - but the process is why I shoot more film than digital!
That makes a lot of sense. I wonder if one of those chemical blackening solutions might be used to darken the pinhole without compromising its shape?
I was about to say the same thing. Even though very thin, the brass shim has some thickness which could result in the hole’s walls reflecting some light. I’ve used cold blackening solution to blacken pinholes and did not experience any issues with the chemicals distorting the shape.
Great build and have fun with your new camera!
I was just going to post this very thing.
This takes me back to 1974 when I was in photo school in the Army and we started out with flat-plane cameras. To this day it still amazes me that light coming through a hole can make a picture you can look at years later. I love watching you make things most people wouldn't dream of even trying.
Glad the video brought back some memories. It amazes me too! :)
I find Neil’s builds so inspiring and relaxing. At first I thought it was just your voiceover but I’ve realized the way you handle challenges and mistakes is what puts the viewer at ease. You’re a great teacher! As a reforming perfectionist it’s great reminder that mistakes are just part of the process-they don’t stop one from making beautiful things or actually enjoying one’s self!
As a poor student a lot of my early photographic work was shot on paper with contact print positives, brings back good memories, great stuff.
I made a pinhole camera from a shoebox when I was 15, such great pictures, obviously this is another level. Well done.
About a 100 years ago, when I was a kid, I also made a pinhole camera. My darkroom was a very thin plywood box that refrigerators used to be shipped in. Laid face down so I could crawl in. Top was the layout for my Marx model RR.
Very cool. I find that using a film camera makes one a better photographer because it really forces you to consider everything more carefully before you take the picture.
I'm so glad to hear that as I had 20 years of film experience before digital even came about ;)
Thank you! I totally agree. :)
They're coming back into fashion now
Nah, taking more pictures makes you a better photographer, the film is just fluff that makes you feel superior, but I have to admit it has its charm.
That's amazing! What a renaissance man - hollow body guitars, drop-forged tools, and now a camera!
Thank you - Glad you enjoying the videos. :)
Text book example of how to incorporate advertising in a video, plus fantastic multidisciplinary skills shown across the video. BRAVO👏
I´m not surprised that you are an photographer. It´s so obvious when one see how you edit your videos. It´s professionel storytelling.
I´m in my 60´s and bought my first SLR camera as 13. Photographer is for life. Amateur or pro.
Thanks Michael. :)
Many years ago I used to go to astronomy camp, we had special astrophotography setups which included the materials to shoot pictures with analog film sensitive to specific wavelengths. We had a darkoom too, I've spent many many hours in there developing black and white film and photos, it was super cool, I still have many of those laying around hahaha.
One day from the man who set that up, he invited a couple of guys to come make pinhole cameras. We'd make them from tin cans, we'd put them anywhere and everywhere around the campground, it was super fun to do. I even took a picture of myself that day sitting perfectly still for 30 minutes. It was quite scary developing the photopaper but it worked out pretty well hahaha.
I'm sure you're gonna get many hours of fun out of this camera. It's an absolutely stunning build, I hope it will benefit you and add to your photography knowledge. It's important to realise where we came from in any field of expertise, it's fun to be busy with the same materials and restraints our ancestors had to work with!
Sounds like some good memories Benjamin - Glad you enjoyed the build. :)
Mr Neil,
It is impossible to watch your work in different fields and not admire and appreciate the care you put into everything you do. You have done another great work. Congratulations. Stay well. 👌🏼👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks very much - Glad you enjoyed it! :)
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Neil, one of the real joys of this channel is getting to see you use the tools you made in previous videos. It’s wonderful.
Glad you appreciate that Reggie - some of those tools have been working great for me, I really do enjoy making them. :)
This was a thing of beauty! both the process and the result. I taught my high school students how to build a pinhole camera from an 11x14 piece of black mat board. They took award winning photographs with those cameras and had a blast doing it. Digital Photography is amazing, but there is nothing like the magic of the darkroom to make one appreciate the wonder of photography. Thank you.
That's a beautiful camera - and so much fun to relive the very earliest days of photography 😃
Holy crap… I generally skim through videos to get the highlights, but I literally watched every second over dinner. I couldn’t pull myself away. It’s so fascinating when you need a part, and you just make it! I’m a full time maker over on TikTok, but am genuinely in awe if your skill and gifting. GREAT VIDEO!
28:40 as a Yorkshireman, my heart sang when I heard the sweet indicator of deeply ingrained spoken English (shared by several counties from these shores), namely, "... if it _were_ glued..." 🥰
Huh
"OVER-ENGINEERING".... Yes! That's what I come here for!! I also appreciate that you leave in your mistakes. It can often seem very daunting when we see makers producing perfect results first time, every time. I'm sure everyone makes simple mistakes all the time, but by careful editing you would never know. Thank you for showing you are human like the rest of us!!
This is another great project, Sir! I'm not entirely sure that you have time for another hobby though!😮😮😮!
BTW, if you do decide to go down the film "rabbit hole", you can get a "dark bag" which you use to load the film, rather than having to do it in a darkroom. I used to do it back in the day. (You still need a darkroom for developing though).
I loved this video. You talked through every part of the process with no extras, no waffle and kept the mistakes in. I have made pinhole cameras in the past, nothing as beautiful as this though. I would think that the white circle is from the edge of the brass, perhaps paint round it with black paint or line it with velvet if you can.
For anyone making a more simple camera, the shutter is not necessary. I used to use a piece of masking tape painted black, just peeling it off to take the picture, then putting it back
You can buy commercially made pinholes that are perfectly round, but as you say you can use a piece of drinks can, punch the hole with a needle and sand the back.
Multigrade paper can have varying speeds depending on the colour temperature of the light. Fixed grade paper is better, grade 3 or 4.
Thanks for this video
Just when I think your omnipotence has reached the pinnacle, you just add a whole new dimension to your skills realm. You truly are a renaissance artist. (the really great artists from the Renaissance also dabbled in a whole bunch of art media and methods and the were good at all of them, excellent at a handful. And that's what we see from you as well)
Thanks very much Luke - Just having fun and staying inspired to try new things. :)
@@PaskMakes you forgot to add passing on that inspiration to us, humble viewers :)
That was brilliant Neil, well done buddy. Brought back memories of my diploma (city & guilds) in black & white photography, so much fun developing your own images..
Thanks very much - glad it brought back memories. :)
Great work. Can't wait to see you making a same style tripod for that camera.
Neil, I sometimes have to use the metal lathe for wooden parts and i find that some cloth stuffed into the chuck can save a lot of time when cleaning out the fine sawdust from the scroll.
In my professional life pre retirement I was a physics teacher and one of the most inspiring lessons we did was investigating pinhole cameras and taking photographs around the school and developing their photographs. In the days before OHS the children loved seeing their images appear in the chemical baths, far better than just reading about it or watching a video .....
I worked at a camera store and dark room in the late 80's. Nice to see that Ilford is still in the photog business. I will never forget the smell of those chemicals. Beautiful camera!
Thank you! :)
You're a Renaissance Man, Neil.
That camera is a work of art in all of its apparent simplicity.
Loved the photographs, there's a very distinctive look to them. Maybe it's time for a "Pask Photographs" channel?
Cheers.
This is amazing Neil! I was a photography major in college and did black and white dark room and you have really scratched an itch with this project. Great job!
Thank you - glad it may have inspired you. :)
I wonder whae Uri Tuchman would do with the same project except the Pigeon on the shutter and the engraving instead of develloping. Nice project.
Reminds me at my days as a kid: My father introduced me into photography and I used b/w at first, developed them in my fathers darkroom over 45 years ago. I still have the gear and I should do the same with my son.
Love this! we made pin hole cameras in my high school photography class. It was part of our first project! brought back all the memories with this one !
Thanks very much - Glad you enjoyed it. :)
MAN, this is just excellent... a nice vintage Camera ...
Might the flare come from a reflection on the side of the hole in the brass foil ?
You never fail to astound what a wonderful bit of kit you created again.
I'm super pleased with it Steve - Glad you like it. :)
I'm like, "No way did he just make a camera!?!"
Great job and thanks for acknowledging your mistakes!
We're all human and the mistakes just makes us better!
You always, always amaze me! I don’t know how one person can contain so much depth of knowledge and skill, ideas, etc. it’s just amazing. I love the camera, using the router to mimic the curved edge to inset the beautiful leather was neat to see and something I’m sure I’ll look back on. I love the metal work as well, it’s all worth watching and rewatching as I feel I catch something new every time. Pls never quit YT! I have lots of favorites but you are the most unique and skilled and take on challenging projects, I’m not one to want to recreate traditional furniture or projects so it’s very helpful and inspiring that you are willing and thrive in creating some of the most unique things. The photos are absolutely stunning with lots of character. I wonder what taking a family portrait would be like for that amount of time but if possible it’d be the best fam photo
Thanks very much - really glad you enjoy what I do and I appreciate the support. Love the idea of a family portrait but not sure they would stand around long enough for it. :)
on a scale of 1-10 your skill is around 3000, and that min-lathe is so cool, cant wait to see more of it...
I think the ring in the first picture is reflection from the inside of the pinhole itself. It’s untreated brass at the moment but maybe you should paint it matte black as well.
the Ring in the Photography is a reflex from the Light above. The brass inner ring makes it shine to the paper.
World's most overbuilt and beautiful pinhole camera. The form and finish of this begs to be touched and held in the hands. And the picture quality is much better than the one I made in middle school with a cardboard quick oats container. 😁 Thanks for sharing!
Thanks very much - Glad you like it! It is over the top but I'm super happy with it. :)
Wood, brass and leather. What a brilliant camera you've made. The best maker video I've watched all year.
I'm not sure about that but thank you. :)
@@PaskMakes I'm also a photographer so this one ticked that box too.
If you blacken your brass shutter (just the parts in the middle of the "lens") and the outside of the brass pinhole, it should cut the light glare significantly. Also, a matte finish for those brass parts would have helped. Think of a normal calera lens : everything apart from the lens elements is painted matte black, and the surfaces are granular and/or ridged to cut out most reflections.
Also outside light tends to create very high contrast negatives when using paper negatives. You can use a 00 contrast filter (those that are used with an enlarger) in front or behind your pinhole to make a flatter contrast paper neg. Easier to contact print afterwards :)
Good job nonetheless, as always your craftsmanship is impressive.
@@teebee75 Birchwood Casey makes a product called Black Brass. Haven't used it personnally. I just use a sharpie for small parts, or matte black paint for parts that are not going to rub anywhere. It's pinhole photography, it doesn't have to be perfect ahah
LOVING this build. You should DEFINITELY use this to make your thumbnail photos for YT.
Yes!
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm not sure about that but I'm definitely going to get some use out of it. :)
Neil I've been watching your videos for years. I can't believe today is the first time I've looked at your photography, it's stunning.
When I was doing my GCSEs I managed to set up a usable darkroom in the cupboard under the stairs. It was a cramped but it worked.
Merry Sunday.
Jay.
Thanks for being a long time viewer Jim - glad you enjoyed the photography. :)
Oh my gosh you are so EXTRA and I'm 100% here for it!!! A couple of decades ago (!!!) I spent a lot of time in darkrooms and I loved it. This has brought back so many memories. I still have my cameras and a box of my favorite Ilford paper (probably dead by now) in the basement... Can't wait to see more of your photographs!
You never cease to amaze me with what you come up with Neil. Bloody brilliant.
Thanks very much! :)
As a one time black and white photographer, I have to say I am impressed. Not only with the construction but the images. Awesome.
And that right there is the most entertaining video I have ever seen. It surpasses many of your other highly entertaining videos which are all the next most entertaining videos I've seen. Thank you for making and sharing these brilliant videos. My heart always flutters when I see a notification from you as I know I am in for a real treat. Kudos Neil. You are THE master!!!
Thanks very much Douggie - really glad you enjoyed this one and my other videos! :)
all i can say is wow, there must be a market for such an amazing camera and piece of art. Thanks so much
When digital cameras came about, photography lost its soul.
I’m am thrilled you brought us back to the true art of photography! It’s far more beautiful and more creative than any computer could possibly interpret. Please show us more of your talent in photography with that camera. Thanks for a great topic and video.
Wonderful craftsmanship! This takes me back to the 1960's. As a schoolboy, I built a dark room in my dad's garage, and along with conventional photography, I experimented with several pinhole cameras using various sized cardboard boxes from shoe boxes to shipping boxes. I acquired silver nitrate emulsion that I painted onto panes of glass. Large format, black & white, pinhole camera images can be quite artistic in appearance. I made the pinhole in aluminum foil, blackened on the inside, glued across a larger opening in the box. It seemed that making the aperture in the thinnest material possible was critical in reducing image distortion and other deleterious effects.
Takes me back to the cupboard under the stairs where I had my darkroom as a kid. Nothing beats when you see your photo coming to life on a piece of paper ❤.
Awesome 👍
Nice to see Ilford survived the digital revolution 🤩
30:01 The brass screws look better than solid wood IMO because they compliment the brass of the mechanism.
And as always, thank you so much for including your mistakes. It’s a great reminder to all of us to pause before each step to make sure you’re not making a dumb mistake.
We do enjoy spending some time in the shop with you. Thank you for inviting us again. 😊
Fantastic project, I agree that Black and white photography has a lot more character than digital .I have done a lot of years doing digital micrography of insects for scientific papers ,but I still have my Nikon and my Meopta enlarger at home .Again congratulations on a great job.
Now....
You have the advantage of modern tools, some with power....
Imagine what it took to build something like this at the dawn of pin hole cameras (camera obscura) and the time that photography was a new thing.
Imagine what kind of time and care it took to hand craft such a camera!
An absolute work of love! ❤
One of the nicest pinhole cameras that I have seen.you need to track down the cause of the Ring. It may be down to the thickness of the pin hole brass. You can make it thinner where you make the hole by hammering it. Before you make the hole.this will reduce the edge that is catching the light
You could also Smoke the hole of your existing one.using candle smoke.
Ilford was my film choice for several decades for me. In the brief time that I had access to to a darkroom, I printed on Ilford paper. Excellent work. Thank you for sharing.
What a great object and cool character in the finished photographs.
35:37 At this exact moment I remember the smell of the darkroom. That specific astringent smell from the chemical solutions. And the feel of those specific tongs we used.
I learned film photography in high school, where we had a darkroom set up for black and white photography. (Digital cameras weren't really consumer items yet, that'd take a few years yet.) I remember when we developed film and that had to be done without any light at all, not even the red light that the paper doesn't respond to, entirely by feel, and you had to wind it from the housing onto this spiral wire carrier so that the film developer would be able to reach all of it, perfectly evenly or it'd come out weird.
RUclips recommended your channel to me and I love this video! It seems half-planned and half-play-it-by-ear and I love that you could make it all happen!
That Ilford paper is multicontrast. That means when you are contact printing, you can change the contrast of the final print by using different color light. Blue increases contrast. Green decreases contrast. White gets intermediate contrast and you can get finer control by using some blue and some green. You can also change the contrast of the negatives with filters on the camera. Blue to raise contrast green or yellow to lower. The green or yellow will also darken the sky a bit. According to the Ilford data, using a blue filter requires roughly double the exposure.
You sir are a renaissance man. Your channel never fails to put me in a state of awe and inspire me to be creative. You're so patient and thorough!
Many many years ago I made a 4x5" pinhole camera from two, one side open, mdf boxes. They slid inside each other so I had some "zoom". Nothing as refined you do here, but a simple fun thing.
Wow ! Deine Videos sind unglaublich. Das Ergebnis ist wunderschön geworden. Danke für deine Videos 👍
*WOW now that is so impressive.. to make a camera like they were made back in the day... is SO amazing. 🙂As a photographer, I was blown away, all the way thru this video... but to see the end results... was like WOW. 🙂 To me this is your best video to reproduce what the inventors thought up & designed & then made all those years ago.🙂🙂nz*
Your craftsmanship never ceases to amaze me! Beautiful work!
DAMN!!!! That is amazing - thank you for sharing, When I was a kid I had a Brownie Box camera - my Dad and I played around with processing that film. Good memories and great fun.
Amazing work, Neil! Stunning looking camera! 😃
Really well done!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
My very first camera, was a pin hole camera that I used to take photographs with. I have since collected a few pin hole cameras, that I like to show off from time to time.
It's a beautiful camera by the way.
I'm also a woodworker and a photographer. I made several wooden pinhole camera to use with 120 rolls or 4x5' sheets. I really like your design and it will probably influence my next project. Thanks a lot.
It's a true work of art. I remember doing 35mm photography in high school years ago, still have most of my prints, such good fun. Great to see that Ilford didn't die out with the digital era.
Old mate has done it again. Absolute ripper. Love the camera, what a beauty.
Absolutely beautiful. The craftsmanship, the attention to detail, and the photos. Very well done. Thank you for this.
Wow Neil!! I could not lift my eye off the video till the end!! And by the end I found myself smiling!! The ONLY person on RUclips that I would never miss a video!!
love the oh so relatable mistakes. made a knife block a couple of weeks ago, first cut on the table saw, read the wrong ruler on the fence adjuster, cut 250mm short! mistakes are real!
My Dad bought one of those Unimat lathes when we were posted to France in the mid '60's. Don't know if you're aware, but the little machine can also be converted into a drill press and with the use of the compound slide, a mini mill as well. Dad was also a photo tech with the RCAF for 26 years, so he would be tickled pink to see one used in the making of a camera. I inherited it and used it often in my work as a gunsmith for making many small parts. Brilliant work on the camera, looks like it will be a lot of fun.
Very nice project. Reminds me of my school days when we used to develop black-and-white photos in the darkroom in a workshop.
My brother had a darkroom setup when we still lived at home and I had never heard of directly exposing paper to create a negative image.
I always learn something watching your videos.
I found this fascinating. At the first glance I spotted the "lens" and the classic 4x5 Graphic film holder and thought you were going to build a field camera. What you did do is amazing. I think I would jump to film and make contacts to start. It is no harder. Loading in the dark can be done in a bag. You just have to sacrifice one piece of film and practice loading and unloading till you can do it easily by feel. I really miss having a darkroom. When I started the mimeograph machine was high tech.
The bright ring is a reflection of the edges of the aperture. If you can paint the edges of the metal with matt black paint that will eliminate or greatly reduce that effect.
Great project, I have no desire to make a pinhole camera myself but it did inspire me to want to get my DSLR out and use it more.
I love watching these projects come to life. The craftsmanship is amazing all on its own but then add the ingenuity and creativity and it becomes genuine art. You should consider opening a museum with all the weird and wonderful creations you have made over the years. And not least, thanks for sharing them here 😊
WOW! Just wow! I'm a photographer as well, I've done film in many formats from 35mm to 8x10. I've used pinhole cameras including one I made using an oatmeal container and an old plastic Diana. Watching you make this camera is awe-inspiring!
It's also fun to see someone work from a general plan then problem-solve during the making process. It was enlightening.
Wow Neil! I'm speechless. Very, very well done sir.
Wow, this is definitely one of your coolest projects Neil!! Woodworking, leathercraft and photography in one video, three of my favorite hobbies!
I remember making a similar type of camera in primary school, from just some cardboard and if I remember correctly some sort of toy magnifying lens. It worked, which I thought was so cool!
Have to add another comment. Waiting to see the image appear in your dev process was very exciting (especially from a self-made camera) and really took me back to my darkroom days. I have a lot of MF and LF gear and they have sat unused and unloved for far too long - time to do something with them. So glad you've 'reignited' your photography mojo and can't wait to see more from you! Cheers - David
Pask Makes - David Clicks.
This woodworking photographer was mesmerised for the whole show! Having wanted to make a good LF pinhole myself, this is very inspiring. Need to clear a few jobs (to keep the missus happy) and will get going. Probably a touch less elaborate than yours, methinks! Cheers and big thanks from Sydney - Dave
Wow! That is impressive. Even viewing the images taken, through my iPad, you can still see that there is something different about a real photograph. It really does have a ‘warmth’ about it that digital just does not capture.
Neil,
I absolutely love watching you work on projects. You make works of art every time you touch materials.
Thank you for what you do, sir.
I first came to your RUclips channel after finding some of your photos elsewhere. Stayed on for your craftsmanship. So thrilled with this melding of interests
Brings back memories of me as a child with my father, in a dark room developing film from box cameras, 35mm file and motion picture film. I have always favored black and white film. I would love to have another box camera. Excellent work, you have a new subscriber.
This reminds me of my first camera. It was an oatmeal box/cylinder cut in half to give two curved pieces painted flat black inside and out. The pinhole was in aluminum foil but was across the center. It took six tries before I got a good pinhole. In the early 60s there was no online to calculate the pinhole size…. The film was held to the inner curve of the oatmeal container with double sticky tape. Fixing the image was simpler back then. I got good pictures with a minimum of fuzziness. Your build reminded me of my camera but with the pinhole being on the flat side.
Great work on the build! Beautiful!
Thanks so much for bringing back the manual art of making something by hand, and something so beautiful and inspiring like this simple photo camera. Developing the negatives in red light reminds me of a photo course at my school back in the early eighties, and doing photography myself with cameras then.
Now I have some cameras of my father laying around in some shelves, and taking pictures only on iPhone…
Bloody hell! This was insane mate, well done!
I physically recoiled when you cut that recess on the wrong side but I love that you leave in your mistakes! It just shows that projects like this take skill!