>For the body of the telephoto lens he uses paper tubes or plastic drain pipes.
>He often put several lenses in them, which he fixed with glue or asphalt.
>He also focused with a children’s telescope: from a board he made a wooden holder and mounted the camera on it.
>The telescope was attached to the holder with dressmaker’s elastic at the appropriate distance from the camera lens, so that the picture on the film was in focus.
>The whole thing looks like some kind of weapon.
>In a similar way, he also made very complicated cameras.
>From cardboard and plywood he assembled the body, sealed it with asphalt from the road, and painted it black. >From two empty spools of thread and dressmaker’s elastic he assembled the rewind mechanism, a sort of pulley system, to which he attached the shutter.
>The shutter was made of plywood with a little window cut through it.
>Depending on the tension of the dressmaker’s elastic the shutter flipped through the camera quickly or slowly, exposing the film for a shorter or longer period.
>It’s hard to believe that he could make such subtle, Impressionistic pictures with such a clumsy instrument.'
That's some dedication right there.
