How are disposable cameras able to operate if they have no moving parts?

[Graham Patterson]

I had a camera with no moving parts once.


Boy, was that one frame really dense.

8-)

[Sylvester Graham]

How is this about large format?

Oh I shouldn't have said that, I'm being a stickler. But let me point out, "sennorita" if your gender corresponds correctly to your name then you ARE THE FIRST FEMALE I HAVE EVER SEEN ON THIS FORUM. RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

[Alan Davenport]

How is this about large format?

Well, I suggested a 4x5 pinhole camera......

[Sylvester Graham]

Right, but that's not what the thread's about. (......)

[Brian C. Miller]

... you ARE THE FIRST FEMALE I HAVE EVER SEEN ON THIS FORUM...

Where have you been? Calamity Jane was fun.

[Alan Davenport]

Right, but that's not what the thread's about. (......)

Sure it is! You can make a nice 4x5 pinhole camera out of an oatmeal box. If that ain't disposable, nothing is.

[Eric James]

Sure it is! You can make a nice 4x5 pinhole camera out of an oatmeal box. If that ain't disposable, nothing is.

Perhaps this is what the assignment was really all about: "Describe how a disposable camera can function without moving parts."

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Alan,

How about a 4x5 pinhole camera? No moving parts, unless you count your hat.

Of course, that means you can't take the film out of them.

[rwyoung]

OK, how about this for no moving parts in a pinhole camera!

http://www.papercams.com/gallery/photos.html

[Hollis]

If you unwrap the carboard off the disposable and then find the leads on the front near the battery you can short it out with the blade of a knofe or a screwdriver and make a nice popping sound (good flash too). Yeah, it got realy boring working in a photo lab.