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6X7 "COFFEE" CAMERA - 6X6 "TEA"
CAMERA
TWO MEDIUM FORMAT PINHOLE CAMERAS
With little, very little expense
it's possible to make "camera obscura", the primordial
experience of photography: the pinhole camera. This exiciting experiment can
produce original and good quality pictures, wich are not obtainable with sophisticated
today's cameras. This web page addresses fans of "real photography":
-people who do
not let themselves "trap" by the tecnological race at all costs, and
by automatic cameras, which limit author's creativity because they are
themselves "creators";
- people who
think cameras are just means and not aims.
To build a
pinhole camera it's enough to do a small hole in a box and add a film loader
inside. It can easily be used outside. I ricicled two boxes, one tea and one
coffee box, and then I designed for each of them a 6x6 and 6x7 store.
6X7 "COFFEE" CAMERA - Medium format pinhole
camera (6x7 cm) built with a metal coffee box (size 10.5x12.2x7.5). The camera
provided with a 120 loader, has got a exposures counter on the cover, on the
rigth of the loader handle. The hole is on a slim aluminium leaf placed behind
a "bandierina" shutter, wich is manually started by a cable release. Under
the stiffening wooden base is the tripod nut screw.
Features:
- focal length 48 mm/ f 200 / film size 120/ frame size 6x7.2 cm/ total
frames 8.
6X6 "TEA" CAMERA - The tea box used is very small and it was not
easy building a film store 6x6, because of its small inner size (8x7.2x7.2).
The camera has
got an exposures counter and a loader handle. A "bandierina" shutter
sets the exposure manually by a cable release.
Features: Focal length 38 mm. / f
180/ film size 120/ frame size 6x6 cm/ total frames 12.
A VERY IMPORTANT REFERENCE 
Jon Grepstad: Pinhole Photography-History,
Images, Cameras, Formulas
Home page by Fabio Quadarella < qua.fabio@iol.it >
Last modified: June 1999