Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Before this thread came about I built many a pinholer out of oatmeal boxes. Problem is, today's oat box has a plastic lid instead of the cardboard slip-on lid of days past. The ultimate pinhole cam used to sit on the Santa Monica Pier. It was a twelve foot high cylinder that spun on roller bearings and allowed folks to get inside and tape photo paper to the wall across from the pinhole. You could change the hole via a set of boards with varying diameter pinholes, much like the lens board on a view camera. It was free and also functioned as a camera obscura for those people wanting to trace images on paper. It began to serve as a shelter for homeless people and the city (presumably) removed it. Regards, Ben W. Holmes Boulder, CO USA bholmes@frii.com