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jonathan_lipkin
17-Oct-2010, 19:22
Saw this at Stupid Photographer blog:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/4300741225/

Made from foamcore and rubber bands. The only thing missing is duct tape and chewing gum.

jnantz
17-Oct-2010, 21:37
too funny
i have made 10 cameras out of foam core

1 2x4
2 4x5
1 5x5
1 5x7
3 11x14 / 7x11
and 2 12x20

in the end the camera doesn't really matter
it is what you do with it that matters ...

Brian Stein
18-Oct-2010, 03:27
foamcore: easy to buy, cheap, strong and easy to cut/machine: a good way of prototyping, and like many prototypes often ends up being used forever as the real thing because its good enough!
as this shows a camera really is just a box to keep the dark in.

Daire Quinlan
19-Oct-2010, 04:25
Yeah it does the job pretty well, initially it was meant to be a working prototype which was going to be transformed into a proper monorail view camera with movements of some description, but having a second child sort of got in the way of that :)

Here are a couple more representative B&W samples ...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2727/4386036602_412f68e515.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/4386036602/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2679/4386033060_ffabba2ef5.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/4386033060/)

I also started experimenting with exposing RA4 paper negatives ...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4493885015_3c82b8fe7a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/4493885015/)

Brian Stein
19-Oct-2010, 04:47
Yeah it does the job pretty well, initially it was meant to be a working prototype which was going to be transformed into a proper monorail view camera with movements of some description ....

The defence rests!

jnantz
19-Oct-2010, 06:01
nice work daire

john

Scott Walker
19-Oct-2010, 06:06
Very cool camera Daire Quinlan & it seems to function rather well based on your images.
When I was in art school I made a 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core inside a 12 pack beer box.

Daire Quinlan
20-Oct-2010, 08:47
The defence rests!

:) It's true, best laid plans etc etc etc


nice work daire

john


Very cool camera Daire Quinlan & it seems to function rather well based on your images.
When I was in art school I made a 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core inside a 12 pack beer box.

Thanks guys, yeah it does surprisingly well considering. The only crucial measurement I guess in a camera like this is to make sure that your film plane is as close as possible to the GG position. That took me a bit of shimming to achieve. Shooting that 300mm wide open at f/4.5 meant that a difference of about .5 mm on the ground glass put the focal point about an inch or so further back on the subject. not good :-)

The one adjustment i want to make to this current model is to add up down movement on the front panel, maybe some sort of sliding arrangement. This, I think, will allow for more dramatic portraiture with some of the shorter lenses with less coverage that I have, as I can fix the center of the image circle on the subjects face but still have it off-center on the negative.

JoeV
21-Oct-2010, 16:29
If you iron and/or glue countertop woodgrain laminate onto the outside of the black foamcore, to make it appear like wooden construction, it not only acquires a wood-like appearance but the lamination gives it some great strength for its weight.

~Joe

Casey Kidwell
26-Oct-2010, 11:22
Beautiful images for any camera.