Wonderful 2 videos. When I saw your Rear Window video, I thought it would be great to make a camera like in Tintin, and then I saw this immediately. Brilliant! To improve things, an idea: I’ve seen real a pocket watch camera. It had the aperture in the edge/band of the watch. A skinny strip of film was wrapped around in inside of that rim, diametrically opposite the lens. This way you get a 30-40mm distance between the aperture and film. You can also get multiple shots, by sliding along the piece of film between frames. Nice work.
This is such a fun project, thank you for the inspiration. It looks like your negative is being cropped by the circular opening of the shutter mechanism, not the limit of the focal length. I think 5mm might be able to cover your entire negative. Correctly sized pinholes can have magnificent angles of projection/view.
great project :) the difficulty may be in getting a shutter wide enough to expose your film with such a small range of motion from the winding mechanism, but if you do give it another go, it would be interesting to see if you could achieve a camera capable of photographing documents - i am under the impression that is the task most of these surreptitious cameras were put to back in the day!
I'm a bit late to the party but great job, very ingenious. One thing that would help to improve your image would be to size the pinhole correctly. It looked far too big, there are plenty of online calculators and tutorials for pinhole making and sizing, it makes a big difference to the image if you get the best pinhole you can. Still very impressive though.
You said you need a good focal length inside the object,and you used soda cans to have a lot of the mechanisms in this project,could you use a soda can for the camera body itself?
This is a wonderful project. It's a crime that it only has 129 views. Ingenious!
Ah thank-you very much!
Wonderful 2 videos. When I saw your Rear Window video, I thought it would be great to make a camera like in Tintin, and then I saw this immediately. Brilliant!
To improve things, an idea: I’ve seen real a pocket watch camera. It had the aperture in the edge/band of the watch. A skinny strip of film was wrapped around in inside of that rim, diametrically opposite the lens. This way you get a 30-40mm distance between the aperture and film. You can also get multiple shots, by sliding along the piece of film between frames. Nice work.
Thanks for watching! Ah that does sound like a good idea, I may have to try making an improved version sometime
Been looking forward to this!! Super cool 🕰💥
Thanks Shinny! Glad you enjoyed ⏱
This is such a fun project, thank you for the inspiration. It looks like your negative is being cropped by the circular opening of the shutter mechanism, not the limit of the focal length. I think 5mm might be able to cover your entire negative. Correctly sized pinholes can have magnificent angles of projection/view.
Thank you! Yes I think you're right, I'll have to try making an improved version sometime
Beautiful!
great project :) the difficulty may be in getting a shutter wide enough to expose your film with such a small range of motion from the winding mechanism, but if you do give it another go, it would be interesting to see if you could achieve a camera capable of photographing documents - i am under the impression that is the task most of these surreptitious cameras were put to back in the day!
I'm a bit late to the party but great job, very ingenious. One thing that would help to improve your image would be to size the pinhole correctly. It looked far too big, there are plenty of online calculators and tutorials for pinhole making and sizing, it makes a big difference to the image if you get the best pinhole you can. Still very impressive though.
Brilliant
this is really cool and interesting to watch
thank-you very much
You said you need a good focal length inside the object,and you used soda cans to have a lot of the mechanisms in this project,could you use a soda can for the camera body itself?
You certainly could, yes