At 09:38 AM 7/14/01 +0100, you wrote:
I have a friend who has been experimenting using 126 cartridges. They are
about to go out of production. He has tried an ordinary 35mm SLR with a
body cap but the focal length of around 45mm is too long. Can anyone
recommend an inexpensive 35mm camera that can be converted into a pinhole
camera with a focal length less than 30mm ?
You may want to tell your friend to stock up if he has a source for the 126
cartridges - Kodak stopped making this at the end of
1999. (http://www.p at ???????/diary/1999/1999_July.php)
The 126 cartridge fits perfectly onto a toilet paper tube, and also some
paper towel tubes. There is a ridge around the film opening that is the
same size as the tube. You only have to bend the tube into a square shape
to get it around the opening. I put a pinhole on the end of the tube and
had a nice "telephoto" 126 camera. You can also cut down the tubes to
different focal lengths. I just added a photo (126bodies.jpg) of my
collection of 126 "bodies" to the upload gallery:
http://www.???????/discussion/upload/gallery2001.php
I never got a decent image with the paper towel tube, but the toilet paper
tube did fine.
Gregg
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