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>>3610720
A pinhole camera that uses some photo paper, but then you have to muck around with developing the photo paper yourself, unlike a film roll which you can just pay to have developed. So, if you want a reduced workload then use the film roll and pay like $15 to get it developed.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:01:44 No.3610842 Report

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>>3610727

a box camera just has some extra mechanisms for the shutter right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:16:20 No.3610848 Report

Quoted By: >>3610850 >>3610857

>>3610842
A box camera has a single (or sometimes double) element lens and a shutter, usually fixed aperture and single speed.

A box camera is the simplest to use, a pinhole is easier to make but you can control aperture and shutter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:17:59 No.3610850 Report

Quoted By: >>3610854 >>3611028

>>3610848

yes okay I literally just figured this out before tabbing back, I think I might get one of each, if that Hamm NuBox was out I'd get it now but it's not so

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:18:56 No.3610851 Report

Quoted By: >>3610860

>>3610720
If 126 film were still a thing you could make a pinhole camera in like 15 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2v_7FroF4

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:21:27 No.3610854 Report

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>>3610850
They both have their merits. Pinhole is its own thing with a certain look and process, a box camera is just holga quality but with a waist level finder.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:31:48 No.3610857 Report

Quoted By: >>3610859 >>3610860

>>3610848

And what's the difference between a toy camera and a box camera? same thing but with a different finder?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:47:07 No.3610859 Report

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>>3610857
A box camera was a style of consumer camera in the early part of the last century with most of the aforementioned features. Kodak Brownie was the best selling example. Waist level finder is optional but most common. A toy camera seems to be any novelty camera, possibly marketed to children, that is a piece of shit that probably has a plastic lens. A box camera can be a toy camera but toy cameras are either the realm of lomographags or used as an appellation of derision applied to anything that isn't gear marketed using pro a lot in the ad copy.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 18:49:15 No.3610860 Report

Quoted By: >>3610866

>>3610851
You can still do that with any size film, but change the dimensions for the focal length and all that. I've seen people make a pinhole camera out of an empty, English, walnut shell. Evidently, there someone who made one from a pine nut.

>>3610857
Those are the old disposable or plastic film cameras that have a single lens, usually also plastic, and fixed focus. There are Toy lenses you can get for SLR/DSLR cameras to simulate that look.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 19:07:21 No.3610866 Report

Quoted By: >>3610869 >>3610906 >>3610914 >>3611799

>>3610860

nah I just want a super simple reuseable film camera to take with me everywhere, I'm considering a 50s Brownie or a Diana, I don't wanna buy a pinhole yet, I want something relatively point and shoot, I got a nice SLR that I never use bc I don't wanna bother with all that fancy shit

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Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 19:13:10 No.3610869 Report

Quoted By: >>3610873

>>3610866
>50s Brownie
Fixed focus Bakelite or Box?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 19:19:08 No.3610873 Report

Quoted By: >>3610877

>>3610869

I was thinking Bakelite yeah, I thought those were boxes?

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Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 19:28:21 No.3610877 Report

Quoted By: >>3610884

>>3610873
Bakelite is the rounded corner ones made from a plastic material called, "Bakelite." The normal box ones are just sharp cornered boxes made from a type of particle board I think.

Top: Box
Bottom: Bakelite

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 19:38:43 No.3610884 Report

Quoted By: >>3610902

>>3610877

Yeah I know what bakelite is, I was just wondering if there's a noticeable difference in quality between the two?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 19:59:32 No.3610902 Report

Quoted By: >>3610903

>>3610884
Just make sure it takes 120 and not 127.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:03:38 No.3610903 Report

Quoted By: >>3610904

>>3610902

Yeah I realized this, I'm not gonna get a pinhole for a few reasons, I'll find a box/toy camera that takes decent quality photos and takes 120

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:05:52 No.3610904 Report

Quoted By: >>3610907

>>3610903
Hope you like everything at f/8 1/125.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:11:37 No.3610906 Report

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>>3610866
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/%2235mm_Focus_Free%22

This is the type you want, unless you're interested in historic cameras. will set you back about 5 to 10 bucks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:12:56 No.3610907 Report

Quoted By: >>3610912

>>3610904

I'm gonna be traveling and I just want photos of places and people, I don't need them all to be super aesthetic I'm not a photographer

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:22:35 No.3610912 Report

Quoted By: >>3610916

>>3610907
They're going to be super underexposed because the sun isn't always out and super blurry because people move. Just use your phone because you're not a photographer.

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Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:23:26 No.3610914 Report

Quoted By: >>3610917 >>3611138

>>3610866
>nah I just want a super simple reuseable film camera to take with me everywhere, I'm considering a 50s Brownie or a Diana
MF folders

Basic folders with triplet lenses are basically free. As long as the bellows are fine they'll make great photos and are surprizingly light and pocketable. Look for Zeiss Nettars or Voigtländer cameras made after WWII.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:27:01 No.3610916 Report

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>>3610912

>implying I'm going to be using a smartphone

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:37:29 No.3610917 Report

Quoted By: >>3610918 >>3610924

>>3610914

I have a Polaroid Land Camera, would that work?

http://www.zeroimage.com/Pinhole_Camera_135_2015_BTN.html

These seem to be pinhole and affordable but have settings, how does this look to you guys?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:39:35 No.3610918 Report

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>>3610917
If you're made of money, go with the Polaroid. Pinhole involves a tripod and standing around for upwards of an hour.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:52:26 No.3610924 Report

Quoted By: >>3610925 >>3611105

>>3610917
>I have a Polaroid Land Camera, would that work?
No, you can't get the instant film for those anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Feb 2020 20:54:15 No.3610925 Report

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>>3610924

:(

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 02:02:47 No.3611028 Report

Quoted By: >>3611110

>>3610850
why the fuck would you do this exactly

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 06:59:16 No.3611105 Report

Quoted By: >>3611128

>>3610924
Impossible film went broke already?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 07:37:21 No.3611110 Report

Quoted By: >>3611112 >>3611113 >>3611164

>>3611028

I'm getting rid of almost all of the tech in my life, or at least as much as possible, I got rid of all my game consoles and gaming PC and I don't consoom anymore very much, some of the last tech I have is cameras, so I want to simplify that even more

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 07:42:54 No.3611112 Report

Quoted By: >>3611114

>>3611110
then just get a fucking 35mm camera what's the big deal this thing is ridiculous

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 07:44:22 No.3611113 Report

Quoted By: >>3611114

>>3611110
this thing is the polar fucking opposite of minimalism because its gimmicky crap that works 0.00000000003% as well as a real camera at the same price point

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 07:45:28 No.3611114 Report

Quoted By: >>3611116 >>3611117

>>3611112
>>3611113

>Easiest to produce as well as use

it's about less developed not just about what's easiest to use lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 07:46:44 No.3611115 Report

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8x10 view camera

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Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 07:52:52 No.3611116 Report

Quoted By: >>3611120

>>3611114
oh well then vintage stone age man i apologise good luck with your thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 07:53:55 No.3611117 Report

Quoted By: >>3611120

>>3611114
if you're planning on making this your only camera then you are completely fucked

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 08:01:28 No.3611120 Report

Quoted By: >>3611127 >>3611165

>>3611116

thank you :)

>>3611117

Why though? I'm thinking TLRs are a nice midpoint between the two extremes

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 08:29:17 No.3611127 Report

Quoted By: >>3611130

>>3611120
TLR is fine but a pinhole camera is retarded as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 08:33:27 No.3611128 Report

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>>3611105
They only make 600 film, not the earlier roll film used by land cameras.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 08:41:03 No.3611130 Report

Quoted By: >>3611262 >>3614853

>>3611127

Yeah I'm not gonna buy a pinhole, maybe later, I'm looking at Brownie Hawkeyes, they're still brownies but they give excellent photos

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 09:49:10 No.3611138 Report

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>>3610914

This was probably the perfect suggestion, medium format, cheap, old, and easy to use, I'm looking at getting a Zeiss Nettar now, that or a Brownie Hawkeye with Flash

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 12:13:53 No.3611164 Report

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>>3611110
Get a minolta SR-T with a budted light meter and a 50mm f/1.7 lens. Won’t ever need batteries and it’ll probably work forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 12:15:13 No.3611165 Report

Quoted By: >>3611218

>>3611120
TLRs are cool and all but in my experience they’re mechanically temperamental as fuck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 15:24:16 No.3611218 Report

Quoted By: >>3611219

>>3611165
They aren't bad compared to anything else. The worst of it is expecting a cheap Rolleiflex to work without a full CLA or getting one of the various jap TLRs with known issues like busted film advance, a chinesium focus lever, or retarded synchro exposure gears.

It's ostensibly easier than getting a folder in working order.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 15:40:33 No.3611219 Report

Quoted By: >>3611222

>>3611218
>It's ostensibly easier than getting a folder in working order.
I was checking out some folder on ebay and all of them have problems I don't want to fool around with fixing and I'm someone who does lots of diy related things. They just seemed like the type of thing you need in your hands to see what is wrong before you know it will be a somewhat easy thing to fix without actual parts fabrication.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 16:03:21 No.3611222 Report

Quoted By: >>3611226

>>3611219
Yeah, shimming a lens board for parallelism is nothing compared to bending a folder back into place and hoping it stays true and that's already THE nightmare job on a TLR. All so you can zone focus with an awkward old folder you can't shoot color with because it has a red window and probably no automatic film advance.

I've become certain that any talk of old cameras or DIY repair is 90% idiots who don't know their shit is busted or what they're talking about and 9% neckbears with a spanner set and precision calipers who grind their own focus glass telling everyone else how bad of an idea it is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 16:09:57 No.3611226 Report

Quoted By: >>3611231

>>3611222
Well, I make my own lenses so you are not wrong.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 16:29:52 No.3611231 Report

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>>3611226
As a corollary, I'm also becoming convinced that the more expensive a camera is, the more likely it is that the owner is a cork sniffing retard I've sold junk I blasted with contact cleaner and dipped the lens in windex to. I swear sometimes the only photographers with braincells to rub together are blasting them away with solvents or a tent full of wet plate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 04 Feb 2020 17:26:10 No.3611262 Report

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>>3611130
disregard me then. i thought you were buying a pinhole camera. the TLR is probably a fun camera to use

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Feb 2020 04:52:26 No.3611558 Report

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bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Feb 2020 21:33:06 No.3611799 Report

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>>3610866
lomography has a toy slr and other glorified pinholes like that.
Maybe you might be interested in film cameras that have shutter priority, then you just have to focus and decide what shutter speed you want, and you'll have better photo quality.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2020 05:03:19 No.3614843 Report

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I can't believe this thread is still up, this really is a slow board

So I got a Brownie Model D and Aristu B&W 400, I'm gonna shoot my roll tomorrow and call a local photo lab, the only one I can find and see if they develop medium format, wish me luck

If I like what I get I'm gonna buy more of these, they're small, cute, and easy to use, and you can still get a lot of control over the photos by changing the film you use, I'll probably get a bakelite one next

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2020 05:28:38 No.3614853 Report

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>>3611130
+1 for the hawkeye. Its a very simple camera, doesn't require any thought to use other than point at thing and click shutter. Use 100 speed film for sunny days and 800 speed film (400 pushed 1 stop) on overcast-ish days. You can also use 35mm film in them if you tape it up. Basically bulletproof, sharp images, and nobody knows what the fuck it is if they're under 40, and everyone older than that will want you to take their picture with it out of nostalgia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Feb 2020 14:25:37 No.3615443 Report

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>>3610720
You can take any kind of trash, make a pinhole in it and put photosensitive paper inside, it will work.
http://solarigrafia.pl/imgs/125/przegladaj.html

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