Building an Afghan Camera

[Romary]

Hi everybody,

I plan to build an afghan camera like the one shown on : http://www.afghanboxcamera.com/

I will put a pinhole instead of the lense

 

[guitstik]

That looks cool, I might have to try this myself.

 

[steven_e007]

What a wonderful website, thanks for posting

 

[Romary]

The site is really interesting, I like it

 

[Ricus.stormfire]

Thanks for posting this....

 

[benjiboy]

Is an Afghan box camera one that blows up in your face ?

 

[Rick A]

In this case, "IED" stands for instant exposure device. "It's a good thing", as Martha would say.

 

[holmburgers]

Is an Afghan box camera one that blows up in your face ?

hmmm.... insensitive perhaps.

 

[Romary]

Is an Afghan box camera one that blows up in your face ?

Is it English humor?

 

[CGW]

Is it English humor?

Nope. Just tasteless.

 

[Newt_on_Swings]

If you click on the camera tab on the site, it bring your to a beautiful short movie on the operation of the camera. Fantastic!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Excellent video! Loved the intermission. I'll show it to my students. Thank you!

 

[CGW]

Great fun. Reassuring to know that film photographers world-wide all kvetch about getting materials these days.

 

[removed account4]

our very own illumiquest has an afgan camera and has taken it on the street
to do some portrait work with it

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

thanks for the website+video &c ..
fun indeed !

john

 

[Steve Smith]

Is it English humor?

No (it's not English humour either!).


Steve.

 

[Romary]

our very own illumiquest has an afgan camera and has taken it on the street
to do some portrait work with it

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

thanks for the website+video &c ..
fun indeed !

john

Great

Good idea to use a suitcase

I like the tripod (quadripod indeed)

 

[benjiboy]

Nope. Just tasteless.

Tasteless, perhaps, but undeniably true, a Royal Marines sergeant from my former unit I knew was killed by an I.E.D three days ago in Afghanistan .

 

[holmburgers]

Yeah, but you do realize that not everyone in Afghanistan is a terrorist, nor is that the overarching characteristic of their culture, right?

That's all we're saying I guess. I'd hate for my home land to be seen as so one-dimensional.

 

[erikg]

Great site! Thanks for sharing. Really interesting facet of world photography history, and true street level photography and business. Think of the stories you'd get to share doing this all day.

 

[CGW]

Tasteless, perhaps, but undeniably true, a Royal Marines sergeant from my former unit I knew was killed by an I.E.D three days ago in Afghanistan .

Regrettable but irrelevant to this thread.

 

[ColdEye]

Wow, this is amazing. So to be clear, he uses a paper as the negative?

 

[Romary]

Wow, this is amazing. So to be clear, he uses a paper as the negative?

Yes and they shot the negative to get the final photo

 

[ced]

Yes a wonderful and very interesting link about this project, I take my hat off to these people trying to make an honest living to support their families. Maybe we can each send a box of paper to keep them merrily clicking along and so keep the wolves from their doors.

 

[ced]

Romary do you have any contact details of the guy that is on his last batch of paper that those interested can post a box or two to him?

 

[ColdEye]

Read the stories of the afghan photographers, a nice read. But some of them have quite sad stories.