the Linatree pinhole paper camera

 


















another paper camera, this one is made by Linatree it’s a real simple design based on the Dirkon, well basically it is the Dirkon only the art work has been changed. by the way the site this camera came from is no longer there and so this camera is very hard to find now. I’ll post the Dirkon next, but for now enjoy this one.

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the original Dirkon

 

this camera is probably the least expensive camera in history. back “during the 1970’s magazines published in Communist Czechoslovakia were controlled by the state, like the majority of other enterprises. Very few good magazines were available and were difficult to get hold of, so people would borrow and exchange them when given the opportunity. This also applied to magazines aimed at young people… the cut-out paper camera known as Dirkon*, published in 1979 in the magazine ABC mladých techniků a přírodovědců [An ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists].” it was created by Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolář and Richard Vyškovský basicly it’s “a functional pinhole camera made of stiff paper, designed for 35 mm film, which resembles a real camera. It may not be the most practical of devices, but it works!” source pinhole.cz
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the Konica Wai Wai Super Wide camera

 

I have known about this disposable camera for some time now and have wanted one ever sence I heard about them. now I discover that the company that makes them has stopped. this means that one there going to be hard to find and 2 there going to get expensive when you do find one. the video will explain why I want one.

Hello world!

Welcome to yet another blog, this time it’s going to be about gathering information about the things I’m interested in making such as building cameras, both pinhole and view cameras, developing film with coffee and other non toxic in home items. making jewelery and making jewelers wax (again with in home items) to sculpt patterns for jewelery and small parts and other stuff. I’m also into screen printing so there will be talk about that from time to time.

one of the things I have discovered while searching the web is that Google has accesses a huge library of pattens. and if your looking to build your own camera this can be very useful in gathering ideas and diagrams on the structure and function of the various parts and workings of a film camera. for example I have a copy of the patten for the first roll film. also I have a copy of the patten for a cardboard pinhole camera. this patten comes complete with a pattern of all the parts of a very simple but unique pinhole camera. I plan to build this one as soon as I can find a good source here in Florence for black mat board.  I also plan to add a 4×5 back to it so I can use film insed of paper. I may even try to get a poloroid back for it. untill I do I will just have to settil for taking picktures with the Diana and Vitoret I got for x-mas this year. 
thank you amore mio…