Lomography - Konstruktor DIY Kit

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The included step-by-step photographic instructions offer clear and easy-to-follow guidance, making the construction of your custom camera a breeze. You'll also need a empty spool to serve as a take-up spool for your first roll, so you can use this one. The Konstruktor does particularly well with black-and-white film, in my experience, producing soft tones that flatter the slow lens — otherwise, you'll want to shoot at ISO 100 in good light to get similarly clean pictures.

Opening and closing the shutter should be done without disturbing the camera, ideally, but if done quickly they will not affect the final image.Building the Konstruktor F is very easy; it can usually be completed in 1-2 hours and, by the end, you’ll have a fully working SLR camera in your hands! The best camera deals, reviews, product advice, and unmissable photography news, direct to your inbox! inch touchscreen, jumper wires, a mini push button switch, the body of a Ninoka NK-700 35mm camera, and two vintage C-mount lenses. If the material is too thick, it becomes less of a "hole" and more like a "tunnel", resulting in the camera producing an image like looking through a tube.

Check out some more great DIY ideas like how to turn a cardboard box into a speedlight softbox , or how to turn a tiny glint of light into an abstract masterpiece . If you are using 35mm film, you will need to make a take-up spool instead of a peg for a empty film spool. If you want to make your own pinhole at home, a good material to use is the metal from the side of a pop can. Youll need to mount your pinhole on the "front" of your box, drill holes for the film spool knobs, mount your film plane, drill a window for reading the film numbers. It wasn’t really even my idea — Kate’s parents gave me a Recesky DIY TLR kit for Xmas which I finally assembled last month.The selling point here is that the camera makes two frames simultaneously, from two different perspectives. Because pinhole exposures are always much longer exposure times than normal cameras, you will absolutely need to use a tripod or rest the camera on a table, fence or some other stable stand. However, before you build a camera, it's often helpful to have an idea of where cameras came from in the first place.

The finished product even has a thumbwheel for film advance, and a rewind knob with a flip-out crank. Entirely made from laser-cut pieces of wood that you assemble together, the camera comes complete with a pinhole lens, shutter, viewfinder, film-holder and winder, camera grip, a tripod mount, and even an eyelet to tie your camera-hanging leash around! Happily there’s no need to glue this one, however, as the disparate parts either snap together or are assembled using provided screws and tightly coiled springs.The devices were widely used in television and film companies for years, and even NASA began using a form of this technology with satellites and space probes. And, as long as you're willing to go through the arduous process of developing film in 2014, you’ll feel a lot prouder of the idiosyncratic results. The Konstruktor is surprisingly solid for something that I "built" myself, but it's not without issues.