Pinhole VI

Photos from my homemade pinhole camera, pinhole turned out to be too small.

How to make a cable release shutter for your pinhole camera

You can make a cable release shutter for your pinhole camera with a few things you probably have lying around the house.
Using a cable release on your pinhole camera makes exposure times easier to control and also reduces vibrations when opening the shutter, so your pictures will be sharper. Now I only need to test if the whole thing is light-proof. :)

You will need:

-cutter and scissors 
-electrical tape, sello tape
-metal ruler
-super glue
-a piece of balsa wood ( I used some canvas stretcher I had at home, I guess you could use two popsicle sticks glued together and cut to the right size)
-an old floppy disc (the ones with metal are better)
-a cable release (I got mine on Apliu Street in Sham Shui Po for 5 HK$)

1. Cut the disc. Using the metal ruler cut the floppy disc. Cut through the plastic a few times on both sides then break off the lower part.

2. Next glue the piece of balsa wood on to the metal part with super glue. Align the balsa wood with the end of the sliding metal part.

3. Secure the wood with some tape.

4. Add the cable release Find the right position for the cable release and secure it with tape. Make sure it cannot move to the sides.

And that's it. I hope you like it!

Pinhole VI

Last Sunday we went to Tsing Yi. It was a really nice day with blue skies and all. We walked along the waterfront and to a container port where they unload the big container ships. People are really friendly in Tsing Yi!  I took some photos with my homemade pinhole camera and he took some with his great grandmother’s Agfa Isolette 3. My pictures all have a hair on them; I'm blaming my dog, of course.

Pinhole V

My latest pinhole photos, they are actually sharper now. Haha!

Pinhole IV

1- playground in Hamburg
2- Currywurst and beer in Hamburg

Pinhole III

My new pinhole camera turned out to be a quite wide angled.

Pinhole II

Pinhole

A week after the World Pinhole day I managed to make my own pinhole camera, using a matchbox and a lot of black tape (instructions here: http://www.matchboxpinhole.com/ ). The first film was full of light leaks from the flimsy shutter and not rewinding it completely, the other one I will pick up today after work.