Perhaps this is another use for film canisters

Alexis

on 6/1/02 12:08 am, R Duarte at ra...@rahji.com wrote:

> Has anyone made a pinhole camera (maybe out of a paint can or something)
> with a light trap on the top that would let developing chemicals in?
> Basically something that would work just like a developing tank with a
> pinhole in the side?
> 
> I'm just curious because it sounds like it'd be pretty easy to make a camera
> like this and it might be a way to make WWPD really accessible to
> non-pinholers.
> 
> eg: what if you made a bunch of these cameras (with the paper in them
> already) and had a group/class/etc take pictures with them (you'd already
> have an idea of what typical exposure times would be since they're all the
> same focal length and pinhole size), then gather everyone back together and
> pour developer in the first one, dump that developer into the next one and
> replace it with stop/water in the first one, and so on like a daisy chain.
> 
> Seems like the easiest way to have a group take pictures and have developed
> negatives without a darkroom.
> 
> I know some people have developed paper negatives in a can camera but I'm
> guessing they do it in a darkroom.  The light trapped hole on the top might
> be a good addition.  Has it been done already?
> 
> Rob
> 
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