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Pinhole Cameras!

20th December 2008

Holga 120WPC Wide Angle Pin Hole 120mm Film Medium Format Camera

Holga 120WPC Wide Angle Pin Hole 120mm Film Medium Format Camera

The Holga 120WPC Wide Angle Pinhole camera has arrived! Continuing the tradition of the famous Holga camera, this new version uniquely combines several methods of photography all in one neat package. It is a Wide-Angle Panorama camera, Pinhole camera and Medium Format Plastic camera all rolled in to one. Add to your Plastic Camera collection with this unique version of the Holga 120Ncamera. Features built in cable release threaded shutter release button, bubble level, 0.3mm f/135 pinhole, 1/4-20 thread tripod mount and masks for both 6×7 cm or 6×9cm images. Uses 120 size B&W or color film.

$49.99

Lomo Sharan DIY Paper Pinhole Camera

Lomo Sharan DIY Paper Pinhole Camera

Crafted in Japan, this is a do-it-yourself pinhole camera in a league of its own. First off, it uses the easy 35mm film & normal development that we all knowand love. As with all things pinhole, you’ll get dreamy soft focus images with straight wide-angle lines and endless depth of field. Its 20mm angle of view captures a fat & wide chunk of everything in front of the camera. It’s constructed of sturdy 1mm paper card, secured with rubber bands, and includes all the tape and fixins that you need. We clocked about 1 hour from unpacking tocomplete assembly. Not to mention, this little guy is cute as a button and unbelievably functional once it’s all put together. You’ve seen them around those enormous digital SLR cameras that are absolutely bursting with bells and whistles. There’s a huge lens protruding from the front,a big-ass flash charging on the top, and a fat battery pack strapped to the bottom. A touch of the shutter button activates 167 focus points and rapid fires400 shots of 12 megapixels each. Not quite pocket-sized, each one weighs approximately as much as a 1971 Volkswagen. Now, let’s imagine the absolute polar opposite to this scenario. Imagine that nothing even a lens separates the outside world from your film. It’s a bit difficult to visualize, as your very own eyes even serve as lenses. Pinholes work on one of the most fundamental and basic laws of light: diffraction. As light passes through a small point, it can yield an organized yet vertically reversed image on the other side. Using a very small hole, and a strip of photo-sensitive film, literally anything can be crafted into a camera. The science behind the magic As you know, a pinhole camera has no lens. In its place is an extremely small aperture through which exterior light is projected onto sensitive film or paper.A lens functions by collecting the light rays outside, inverting them, and focusing them into a smaller image. A pinhole does not focus at all. It merely acts as a “center of projection” inverting the light rays without re-organizing them. The size of the inverted image depends on the distance of the pinhole to the projection surface – a closer distance yields a smaller image and vice-versa. As the hole is not truly a point, it allows more than only one ray from the subject to register on the film. This imparts a characteristic “soft focus” effect. Moreover, as the light is not altered, the pinhole has nearly unlimited depth of field, with reasonably close objects registering at the same sharpness as faraway objects. As the pinhole is so tiny, it yields a wide-angle focal view and reproduces true geometrical lines, unlike the usual curved effect of a wide-angle lens. Using larger format film (ex. 120 vs. 35mm) will result in a wider field of vision. The field also widens as the distance of the film from the pinhole grows although the image will become less sharp as well. Key Features *It’s breathtaking! Everything that you need is incl

$39.95

Lomography Paper Pinhole Camera

Lomography Paper Pinhole Camera

· A bottle of glue, a ruler, and a pencil are the only things separating you for pure & crushing pinhole ecstasy. The Hole-On-Ex is a palm-sized 35mm camera that you construct with your very own blood, sweat, & tears · In exchange for about 90 minutes of your hard labor, you’ll be handsomely rewarded with intense pinhole images, a new appreciation for the mechanics of photography, & an insanely charming new tool to shoot from the hip. Add the “Adventures in Pinhole” book at a special price! · Do It Yourself / The Hole-On-Ex Paper Pinhole Camera Recommended Tools: (1) Ruler – Use for parts folding (2) Pen or Pencil – Use for parts rolling (3) White Glue – Use for parts sticking · These three tools, about 90 minutes of your precious time, & a bit of precise finger-work are the only things separating you from your very own god’s honest self-made camera creation · From four die-cut pieces of paper card, you will meticulously construct an insanely charming little beastie that fully capable of shooting seriously devastating pinhole images · 43 individual pieces are sitting tight – ready to be punched out, rolled up, stacked, shimmied, & glued. If you’ve ever fantasized about getting “Back to Basics,” then this is the opportunity of a lifetime · Can you taste the delicious anticipation of building this compact masterpiece? Then be sure to keep your lips moist to sample the pictures that it takes. In the grand tradition of pinhole photography, the Hole-On -Ex sees a super-wide angle view with true geographic lines & no distortion. Colors are vibrant & b&w is deeply contrasted · The average exposure of 4 seconds on a sunny day turns people into blurs, cars into streaks, and moving clouds into streams of white. Build your relationship with this paper beauty one piece at a time and permit yourself to feel the warm love that only a tiny pinhole can deliver. · Just be sure to keep it out of the rain! · PINHOLE: A pinhole camera has no lens. In its place is a an extremely small aperture (f/138 for the Zero Image Pinhole’s) through which exterior light is projected onto sensitive film or paper. A lens functions by collecting the light rays outside, inverting them, and focusing them into a smaller image. A pinhole does not focus at all. It merely acts as a “center of projection” inverting the lightrays without re-organizing them. · The size of the inverted image depends on the distance of the pinhole to the projection surface – a closer distance yields a smaller image and vice-versa. As the hole is not truly a point, it allows more than only one ray from the subject to register on the film. · This imparts a characteristic “soft focus” effect. Moreover, as the light is not altered, the pinhole has nearly unlimited depth of field, with reasonably close objects registering at the same sharpness as far away objects (okay, REALLY close objects will will be blurred!). Item Includes Paper Pi

$24.95

Holga 135PC Plastic Pinhole 35mm Camera

Holga 135PC Plastic Pinhole 35mm Camera

The manufacturer of the Holga camera has created three new versions of their world famous camera in 35mm format. The new models are Holga 135 (Item #167-120), Holga 135PC (Item #168-120) and Holga 135BC (Item #170-120). The Holga 135 is a standard 35mm camera with similar features to the Holga 120N (item #144120) except that it includes a cable release adapter in the shutter release button. The Holga 135PC is similar except that in has a pinhole instead of a lens. The Holga 135BC is the same as the Holga 135 except that it includes an internalmask to create a soft vignetting of the corners or “bent corners” effect.

$43.99

Lomo Diana+, Medium Format Camera with Removable Lens for Super Wide Angle Pinhole Shots, 120 Film

Lomo Diana+, Medium Format Camera with Removable Lens for Super Wide Angle Pinhole Shots, 120 Film

Dating back to the early 1960’s, the all-plastic Diana camera is a cult legend -famous for its its dreamy, radiant, and lo-fi images. The brand new Diana+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Diana – with a few new features tossed in. Its plastic lens, 2 shutter settings (daylight & “B”), 3 aperture settings, and manual focus are all hallmarks of the original Diana. But on top of that, the Diana+ offers a removable lens and super-small aperture for pinhole images, two image formats (12 or 16 square shots on a standard 120 roll), an endless panorama feature that allows for unlimited and nearly seamless panoramic shots, and both a standard tripod thread & shutter lock for easy shake-free long exposures. Each package includes the beautiful “Diana Vignettes” book – packed with over 200 pages of Diana history, Diana+ images, and truly off-the-wall short stories. Uses all varieties of medium format 120 film. The Big Picture (Forget All About It) Seriously, just put it all out of your mind. We’ll no longer look for the big picture, and there will be no more getting an overview or stepping back to take it all in. All of these concepts imply an abrupt halt to activity – a conscious pause of your natural drive and instincts. As we say day in and day out: Be fast. Who’s got the time to consider the implications when close to a million tremendous potential photos are streaming right past your nose? No Diana owner worth their chops would spend one iota of energy on the big picture when there are so many crucial elements to focus on. To hold, point, and shoot a Diana camera implies a conscious decision to relinquish control. To concentrate your creative powers on capturing the moment and telling a story rather than fiddling with a bunch of knobs and levers. A blurry-soft and dreamy-toned Diana image is more an interpretation of reality than a correct representation of it. In a way, it’s somehow more accurate to compare the Diana to an oily vintage typewriter than to a megapixel machine of today. With each click of the shutter, a moment is captured in a unique and fairly unpredictable way and a small narrative begins to reveal itself. As the viewer, you’re invited to read into it and interpret it in in your own way. On top of that, you can count yourself as an individual note inthe Diana’s illustrious history – which dates back to the better part of 40 years. As a cult artistic tool of avant-garde and lo-fi photographers, the Diana was a rousing success! They loved its soft & dreamy images, super-saturated colors, unpredictable blurring, and random contrast. Diana shots are raw & gritty, with a character all their own. They simply cannot be duplicated by any other camera on Earth! Item Includes Diana+ Camera (with lens cap and shutter lock) – Diana Vignettes photo and story book – Instruction manual

$49.95

Lomography Diana F+, Medium Format Camera

Lomography Diana F+, Medium Format Camera “Package” with Removable Lens for Super Wide Angle Pinhole Shots, 120 Film & Lomo Diana F+ Flash

· Dating back to the early 1960s, the all-plastic Diana camera is a cult legend – famous for its dreamy, radiant, and lo-fi images. The brand new Diana F+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Flash Diana – with a few new features tossed in. First off, it includes a retro-styled electronic flash which fires a burst of white or colored light at your subject. · Included adapters allow you to use the Diana Flash on standard hotshoe cameras (like the LC-A+ and Fisheye 2) or use a hotshoe flash on DianaF+ body. Its plastic lens, 2 shutter settings (daylight & “B”), 3 aperture settings, & manual focus are all hallmarks of the original Diana. · And on top of that, the Diana F+ offers a removable lens & super-small aperture for pinhole images, 2 image formats (12 or 16 square shots on a standard 120 roll), an endless panorama feature that allows for unlimited & nearly seamless panoramic shots, and both a standard tripod thread & shutter lock for easy shake-free long exposures. · Each package includes the new “Diana Vignettes, More True Tales & Short Stories” book – packed with over 200 pages of Diana history, Diana+ images, & truly off-the-wall fictional stories. Uses all varieties of medium format 120 film. A Loving Recreation & Homage to the Original · Starting from scratch with an original 1960’s Diana camera, we pulled apart every tiny nook, cranny, gear & wheel to rebuild it from the ground up. Every quirk & imperfection was duly noted & reconstructeup.ielding a lightweight beauty that handles & feels just like the original. The Plastic Fantastic Diana Lens · The Diana’s original all-plastic lens has been duplicated with utmost love & care to ensure the same dreamy, gorgeous, color-drenched, sometimes-blurry, & often-mindblowing results that Diana users have always treasured. The Diana Flash · Working with the classic 1960’s design, we meticulously re-crafted the Diana Flash to look & feel like the original. Its face is cast in reflective silver, & it syncs with the Diana F+ via an old-school metal plug connection. It offers 3 key capabilities: Integrated Color Flash · Just like the Colorsplash camera & Colorsplash Flash, the Diana F+ includes a small packet of plastic color gel filters. Slip one into your flash & throw a burst of colored light at your subject day or night! Long Exposure Flash · By setting your Diana F+ to the long exposure “B” setting, you can let all of that streaming ambient light into your image thereby superimposing a flashed or colorflashed subject against a glowing, riotous, & absolutely beautiful background. · The Diana Flash works via a two-pronged plug adapter just like the original! It plugs directly into the Diana F+ camera body. On top of that, a Diana Plug-to-Hotshoe adapter is included, which allows you to use the hi-powered and radiantly beautiful Diana Flash on any standard hotshoe camera. Item Includes Diana

$94.95

Lomo Diana+, Medium Format Camera

Lomo Diana+, Medium Format Camera “Kit” with Removable Lens for Super Wide Angle Pinhole Shots, 120 Film & Lomo Ringflash

Dating back to the early 1960’s, the all-plastic Diana camera is a cult legend -famous for its its dreamy, radiant, and lo-fi images. The brand new Diana+ is a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to the classic Diana – with a few new features tossed in. Its plastic lens, 2 shutter settings (daylight & “B”), 3 aperture settings, and manual focus are all hallmarks of the original Diana. But on top of that, the Diana+ offers a removable lens and super-small aperture for pinhole images, two image formats (12 or 16 square shots on a standard 120 roll), an endless panorama feature that allows for unlimited and nearly seamless panoramic shots, and both a standard tripod thread & shutter lock for easy shake-free long exposures. Each package includes the beautiful “Diana Vignettes” book – packed with over 200 pages of Diana history, Diana+ images, and truly off-the-wall short stories. Uses all varieties of medium format 120 film. The Big Picture (Forget All About It) Seriously, just put it all out of your mind. We’ll no longer look for the big picture, and there will be no more getting an overview or stepping back to take it all in. All of these concepts imply an abrupt halt to activity – a conscious pause of your natural drive and instincts. As we say day in and day out: Be fast. Who’s got the time to consider the implications when close to a million tremendous potential photos are streaming right past your nose? No Diana owner worth their chops would spend one iota of energy on the big picture when there are so many crucial elements to focus on. To hold, point, and shoot a Diana camera implies a conscious decision to relinquish control. To concentrate your creative powers on capturing the moment and telling a story rather than fiddling with a bunch of knobs and levers. A blurry-soft and dreamy-toned Diana image is more an interpretation of reality than a correct representation of it. In a way, it’s somehow more accurate to compare the Diana to an oily vintage typewriter than to a megapixel machine of today. With each click of the shutter, a moment is captured in a unique and fairly unpredictable way and a small narrative begins to reveal itself. As the viewer, you’re invited to read into it and interpret it in in your own way. On top of that, you can count yourself as an individual note inthe Diana’s illustrious history – which dates back to the better part of 40 years. As a cult artistic tool of avant-garde and lo-fi photographers, the Diana was a rousing success! They loved its soft & dreamy images, super-saturated colors, unpredictable blurring, and random contrast. Diana shots are raw & gritty, with a character all their own. They simply cannot be duplicated by any other camera on Earth! Item Includes Diana+ Camera (with lens cap and shutter lock) – Diana Vignettes photo and story book – Instruction manual

$114.95

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