Cloud75 wrote:
@bjhurley@ that pinhole shot is great. Now I have to look up that camera.
Thanks -- you'll have to move quickly if you want one as the guy who makes them is shutting down production; he made the last batch and is selling them off (at higher prices than before). He's more of an inventor than a factory worker, and he got tired of making the same stuff over and over, which is understandable. I think he had a few helpers but it's mostly him doing the work. He's moved on to large-format cameras now and apparently has some other projects cooking.
There are some good alternatives to Ondu, though:
1. Ranica makes very good pinhole cameras with an excellent shutter mechanism; the only issue is that the maker is in Belarus and it can be hard to make payment (my credit card was blocked due to sanctions).
2. Reality So Subtle also makes good pinhole cameras; these are 3D plastic and most come with filter attachments. I have the 6x6F and like it but the shutter mechanism is very stiff; you're supposed to put your finger (or a lens cap) over the pinhole, open the shutter, lift your finger, put down your finger to end exposure, and close the shutter. But otherwise these are good cameras and reasonably priced for what you get.
3. Zero Image: these are the Leicas of the pinhole world, beautifully designed and they use cable-release shutters but very pricey.
There are others as well, even some that allow you to develop film inside the camera itself.
Desmolicious wrote:
Heads up - the lens is 17mm but the VF maybe corresponds to 21mm. If care, I use an 18mm optical finder in the hot shoe. But I pretty much don't...
And of course never leave the batteries in the camera. It uses three 1.5 cells, and I am finding it very difficult to aquire any that are NOT alkaline in this size. Modern day alkalines leak/fail very very quickly. They did not do this in the years past. Even Duracells - those are now made in China.
Blue Moon Camera had a plastic Voigtlander 15mm finder for about a hundred dollars. I figured it was both close enough and cheap enough.
Two-camera double exposures with the same roll of Fomapan 100. First, I took 12 close-up photos of washi paper taped to my window, using my Ondu 6x6 pinhole camera, for texture. Then I rewound the film (the Ondu lets you do this) and put it into my Ranica MIR 3 half-frame (6x3) pinhole camera and went outside to take some photos. I added sepia toning to the first one just for kicks; I developed the roll in 510 Pyro so the negatives are actually brown in colour and the sepia is not far off.
