Tuesday, June 5, 2007

DIY camera - Dirkon: the paper camera

The Dirkon is a pinhole camera made out of paper (or a more durable card stock preferably matte black). This isn't my idea by any means as pinhole cameras have been around for a long while. Here are plans to make your own Dirkon, just make sure when you print that the scale is correct. It took me a while to put this together and you wouldn't want to spend all that time and then not be able to use it.

I don't have any examples yet, but it was a fun little project to build. I have taken a few frames but haven't gotten the film developed yet. The reason I wanted to build this was to go back to basics, after all a camera is a light proof box with a hole in it.

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