Lomography - Konstruktor DIY Kit

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With any camera lens, the depth of field is the forward and backward distance from where a lens is focused to that is in focus.

An upgraded version of the Konstruktor, the camera is now equipped with a PC socket for flash photography. Since the pinhole is very small, the light passing through it is light which has a particular direction; it is heading directly at that pinhole from the subject, and at a certain angle that it can pass through the pinhole. Step 6: To create the shutter, tape one side of your piece of black paper to the side of the canister so that it creates a flap that falls over the pinhole. My f-stop is 221 so I will use this as a sample value to determine the information we need to calculate exposure times. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here.

f-stop values have certain cornerstone values, and the difference between these values is that the amount of light allowed through is halved each time. The light leaks were terrible and the lenses so bad that the blur and lack of focus was too bad even for Lomo fans! If you would like to make use of my design as a starting point there are PDFs and a DWG attached that will let you reproduce 1:1 cutting guides or laser-cut your own pieces.

But, as Lomography rightly points out, the Konstruktor wouldn't be much fun if it were too easy to build. Again, this elongates the process while equally stretching the patience of the assembler – particularly if you’re eager to get it done in a particular time frame you’ve set aside.The pinhole lens allows for some eerily beautiful color pictures that have a true vintage feel (something you’d find in obscure Instagram filters), and the overall process helps you understand the basic tenets of photography, like aperture, exposure, shutter speed. Like a piece of origami, the inter-leaved, inter-locking cardboard box design unfurls itself to reveal the components neatly compartmentalized before us. Perhaps more than any other camera, the Konstruktor embodies the spirit of Lomography's devil-may-care ethos.

Our first thoughts upon completing the build of the Konstruktor however were that we don’t want to have to do that again in a hurry – and that we’ll opt for a ready-built Lomo next time. Your camera obscura will work best if you are in a dark room with the holes pointing toward a bright subject. Carefully walk back and forward, moving the camera up and down and side to side, until you see an image. We attribute this to the Konstruktor's tactile design concept and Japanese hobbyists' long-spanning interest in both plastic model kits and photography. This isn’t explained at the outset and necessitates some detective work on the part of the assembler, in trying to best match the disparate parts with the small images shown in the manual.TL;DR: Make an old (preferably irreparably-broken) film camera into a night light hipsters will pee their skinny jeans over. The name on mine was “Ridley’s House of Novelty,” although it appears some were sold under the name “Ridley’s Kaleidoscope. Camera night light Night light This starts life as a camera already, but you make it not a camera any more.

It’s like being given a toy as a child and finding you can’t actually play with it or test it out straightaway, as batteries aren’t included. But I quickly realized that, for an amateur like myself, copying and pasting code into a terminal was a game of chance, and one in which I had very little luck. 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.

If the film is sticking in the camera due to friction, as mine was on the wooden guide posts and along the guiding edges, apply some smooth tape to help reduce the friction on those surfaces.