Kickstarter project for pinhole cameras: "Nopo" from Spain

paul ron · Mar 19, 2016

very cool.

TheToadMen · Mar 20, 2016

kraker said:
Woohoo, received my NOPO24 today. Looks and feels good! Planned to go out and shoot with it, but was too busy with other things. Maybe tomorrow... Here's two photos of the NOPO24 and what else is in the box.

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Congratulations. looking good and just in time for WPPD 2016 on April 24th. Hope mine will arrive shortly too.

Dr Croubie · Mar 20, 2016

woo!
Just a tip I found from my first two rolls in my Nopo.
There's a wind-on knob, and a wind-back knob. Don't expect them to work the same as in regular cameras. I used the wind-on knob only for my first roll and thought it was finished when it tightened and I couldn't wind anymore after maybe 6 shots (24exp in a panowide should have given maybe 10-15 shots).
So what you need to do is loosen the wind-back knob to give some slack in the film and then wind on.
Same goes with rewinding, give some slack with the wind-on knob and then pull with the wind-back knob.

I also found my first film somewhat scratched, I'm sure that pulling it extremely tight without loosening the wind-back knob first contributed a lot to that, I'm a lot more hopeful for the next roll.

(I also got a whole heap of light leaks on my first roll, but it was a 40 year old FP4 from a bulk-loader so the leaks may have been on the film already. And I may have been playing with it and accidentally opened it before winding back, so I'm blaming them on me for now)

kraker · Mar 21, 2016

Dr Croubie said:
woo!
Just a tip I found from my first two rolls in my Nopo.
There's a wind-on knob, and a wind-back knob. Don't expect them to work the same as in regular cameras.

Thanks for that. Really helpful, I noticed the same on my first NOPO24 roll yesterday after exposing a few frames, so I'm glad I had seen your post!

First roll through the NOPO 24 developed, and... there's something on there. Hope to have a go at printing tonight.

TheToadMen · Mar 21, 2016

Dr Croubie said:
woo!
Just a tip I found from my first two rolls in my Nopo.

Thanks for the tip. I got mine today and will load a test film also.

Roseha · Jul 29, 2017

Bumping this up, can anyone report further on the 135 Pan Nopo? I thought it might be cool to have, and I am wondering how the images came out, how you determined spacing the panoramas, and all that. I see that they are currently not in stock on the website. Does anyone else make a panoramic 35mm pinhole that has a standard takeup (not a second 35mm canister)? thanks

ciniframe · Jul 29, 2017

No experience with any but B&H is selling a pano 35mm pinhole from ONDU. Lomography is the distributor. They can shoot regular 24X36mm or 24X72 mm and have a focal length of 25mm with a pinhole diameter of .2mm for f125
With a f ratio of that value and ISO 100 film then in bright sun exposure would be less than 1 second, at least by the book. You probably could get away with up to 2 seconds but that still is a bit short for timing a pinhole exposure.

Roseha · Jul 30, 2017

Thanks for the update. Thanks for the exposure info, I am wondering also though how do you space the images as you are winding the film? Anyway thanks again.

ciniframe · Jul 30, 2017

Roseha said:
Thanks for the update. Thanks for the exposure info, I am wondering also though how do you space the images as you are winding the film? Anyway thanks again.

Usually there would be an index mark on the film advance knob and you would have instructions on how many turns of the knob to advance to the next frame. This type of setup does not work perfectly but is good enough. I can't be sure but it would make sense if these are set up to wind cartridge to cartridge, then at the end of a roll you don't have to rewind the film.

klaus3428 · Jul 31, 2017

Are these cameras still available? - on nopocameras.com they are all marked as "out of stock".

Roseha · May 7, 2018

Bumping up, I believe these are in stock, at least they were on sale recently.

I am about to try out the 135 Pan, it appears from the translation that he advises the user to make 1 and 1/2 turns between frames? Can anyone here confirm? I'm afraid my Spanish is non-existent. Thanks

Kickstarter project for pinhole cameras: "Nopo" from Spain

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