This Book is a Camera

[darkosaric]

Wow, cheapest 4x5 camera that you can buy

https://www.fotoimpex.de/shopen/boo...a-camera-pop-up-camera-by-kelli-anderson.html

My question is - can I somehow install some light lens in it? Which one?

 

[Dan Fromm]

A cigar box is more durable. So is a cookie tin.

 

[ciniframe]

I've made a 4X5 using a 130mm f7.7 lens from a trashed Kodak 1A folder given to me. The lens has front cell focusing to 6 ft. so all I had to do was space it at infinity from the film. Made from hobby plywood and foam core total material cost was less than $15 not including 4x5 film holders. So I'd say it was a cheap 4X5. The cheapest I could make at any rate and depended on a free item, the broken Kodak 1A.

Regarding a light lens for 4X5 (it wouldn't work for this book camera) the aforementioned lens from the Kodak is only 110g/3.8oz.

 

[Alan Gales]

A cigar box is more durable. So is a cookie tin.

So is a frozen turkey but I heard it doesn't work so well when it thaws!

 

[fiddle]

Thats it... Im making a turkey pinhole.. Can you imagine the onlookers..????

 

[Alan Gales]

Thats it... Im making a turkey pinhole.. Can you imagine the onlookers..????

Good ole John Kasaian on LFPF tried it. Turned out it wasn't one of his better ideas!

 

[Barlow]

The most disturbing question about the frozen turkey pinhole camera is, where do you insert the film holder?

 

[mark]

The most disturbing question about the frozen turkey pinhole camera is, where do you insert the film holder?

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