Lomography - Konstruktor DIY Kit

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If you have a flatbed with a transparency attachment or lid, you can scan them at high resolution yourself. The included step-by-step photographic instructions offer clear and easy-to-follow guidance, making the construction of your custom camera a breeze.

Since the pinhole is very small, the light passing through it is light which has a particular direction; it is heading directly at that pinhole from the subject, and at a certain angle that it can pass through the pinhole.

I wasted a few films before trying another kit (a proper Recesky one and I cured the light leaks too. Fortunately, a metal screwdriver is provided out of the box for the application of the tiny screws provided for assembly, negating the need for glue, which would have made a couple of the build stages impossible to undo and re-do to finesse. As you may know, there are many types and sizes of film that have been produced in the last century.

If you made your camera out of bare wood, you'll want to finish the exterior with a stain and lacquer to protect it from rain or anything it might encounter when outside. Taking photos with an analogue camera requires your full attention: light level, light direction, exposure, focus, framing the shot properly (there isn't endless space on the film for 50 versions of the same photo! With this angle and the focal distance then you can calculate the diameter of the image that you can take. Combined properly, the two will form a stereoscopic image that approximates three-dimensional reality.This means that when we take a digital camera or light meter, set the ASA/ISO to the speed of the film in the camera, set the aperture to f16 and get a shutter speed, we multiply it by 256.

This is probably why Lomo supplies two of these particular springs, along with half a dozen additional screws, in case parts get lost or damaged in the build. Plamodel 35mm point-and-shoot Straight from UltraFine Online: “The Superheadz Plamodel 35mm Camera Kit is a snap-together kit which also has been copied and sometimes is seen as the the ‘Camman DIY 35mm Camera. I mounted my pinhole on a piece of aluminum that is held in place with four machine screws, which also hold on the shutter mechanism. He is currently the editor of British Photographic Industry News, and previously served as editor of Which Digital Camera and deputy editor of Total Digital Photography. If you are using 35mm film, you will need to make a take-up spool instead of a peg for a empty film spool.

Step 6: To create the shutter, tape one side of your piece of black paper to the side of the canister so that it creates a flap that falls over the pinhole.

Sure, I might have preferred for more of the challenge to come from complex design rather than a vague set of instructions, but it felt good to finally have the completed camera in my hand. And, as long as you're willing to go through the arduous process of developing film in 2014, you’ll feel a lot prouder of the idiosyncratic results.However, there are multiple beams of light that enter the pinhole, and while they're all traveling in straight lines, they're not all perfectly horizontal to the camera. If the material is too thick, it becomes less of a "hole" and more like a "tunnel", resulting in the camera producing an image like looking through a tube. Some had been pre-assembled, and were thus missing from the plastic frame on which we were expecting to find them.