I had another opportunity to visit Budapest Hungary for work. This time, it was in January. It was cold, and we had little snow. Also, there were ice floating in the river. In this trip, I brought a plastic toy lens: Holga by Lomography.
I took most of these night time photo while walking with my colleagues. For that reason, I did not have the opportunity to use a tripod and had to handhold resulting in high ISO and really noisy images. But for a toy lens with a fixed aperture of F8, it was not too bad and it produced images taken with a toy lens/toy camera on a film.
Another DIY film camera kit I found on eBay was Pinhole Art 135. I believe Lomography sold theses long time ago; however, I have not seen this for sale, and I have not found one even on eBay since I got mine.
This kit came with all wood and metal pieces necessary to build a pretty cool looking pinhole camera. There were two issues though. First, maybe the kit was an old one, and some of the pieces were curved and made it little more challenging to put them together. Second, the instructions were not that great.... I mistakenly glued the front piece upside down...
For the "lens", I got a laser drilled pinhole on eBay. To amount on a tripod, I used Reticam Smartphone Tripod mount (on eBay, on Amazon).
Since this is a lightweight and pretty compact, I will be carrying this one to my upcoming vacations to try it out. Also, building this gave me pretty good ideas on how to construct pinhole cameras with wood, and maybe I will try putting something together soon.
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When I got into building DIY cameras, I spent good amount of time search on the web for my next project. There were a lot of instructions on matchbox pinhole cameras. But cardboard HasselBlad pinhole camera caught my attention.
I was always a big fan of the look of TLR cameras. So when I first saw Gakkenflex DIY TLR kit from well-known educational publisher called Gakken in Japan, I was really excited. In fact, this was the first DIY camera kit I bought. I liked it so much that I painted and put leather cover as well.
Another awesome DIY camera kit is Konstruktor from Lomography. Lomography is known for its legendary medium format toy camera Diana and Holga. Lomography also makes pretty interesting cameras. Though Konstruktor is a DIY camera kit, it is definitely a solid film camera and fun to build. I would say it was one of the easiest DIY camera kit to build.
Hello, photography enthusiasts and gadget lovers!! Thank you for visiting my site. Today, we're diving into a unique blend of nostalgia and modernity with the Superheadz Last Camera. I love photography. I love cameras. I love building plastic models. This DIY camera is a great combination. There are quite few DIY toy cameras out there. Some are designed well. Some are not designed very well. Superheadz has done a pretty good job of designing this point and shoot camera called LAST CAMERA. I would say this is my top 3 DIY camera kit.
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