[Leica] Re: Recipe for pinhole cap

[Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>]

At 09:06 AM 4/9/01 -0700, Guy Bennett wrote:
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>1. Cut out a piece of aluminium from a beer can and flatten it out.
>2. Using a ball point pen, make a small dent in the middle of the piece of
>aluminium.
>3. With a piece of sand paper, gently rub down the protusion on the back of
>the aluminium caused by the dent, until there is just a very thin layer of
>metal left. Be very careful not to rub it all the way through.
>4. Place the aluminium on a flat, hard surface and carefully push the head
>of a needle through the thin part of the metal, making sure that only the
>point of the needle passes through.
>5. Turn the aluminium over, place the head of the needle through the back
>of the hole and twist it gently to get rid of any imperfectins  in the tiny
>hole. You now have your pinhole.
>6. Drill a hole measuring 5-6mm across in the center of a plastic body cap.
>7. Tape the piece of aluminium with the pinhole in it over the hole in the
>body cap and put the cap on your camera body. You now have a pinhole camera
>and are ready to take pictures.
>
>from Lee Frost's "The A-Z of Creative Photography."
>
>Guy


What brand of beer can? German, Japanese, or American?

Jim