From: Alan Bucknam (alan@notchcode.com)
Date: 01/21/03-08:59:44 AM Z
Remember, nothing beats the simple, good-old-fashioned oatmeal can
pinhole camera, and it takes about 15 minutes to make.
It would be interesting to take an old speed-graphic 135-mm lens and
try and fit it to a cardboard camera, now that I think about it. your
students would get to learn about focal length, circle of good
definition, etc. in a very intimate and probably frustrating way ;)
although I don't deny a bona-fide wooden camera is probably a lot more
engaging to make, and durable. And cool, of course.
-Alan Bucknam (another Alan)
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Moodie, Jason wrote:
> I'm new to the list and have had a great time with all your comments.
> I use your words to help my students understand and use alternative
> processes in photography. I teach high school photography by-the-way.
> This school is an Arts Magnet school- so I have more opportunity to
> challenge the students with different processes. I also have a large
> wood and metals shop at my disposal and have been considering having
> the students build their own cameras. I have been searching for
> plans, and it sounds like Mike has found some.
>
> Alan, are your plans available? I would really like to use them if
> possible.
>
> Jason Moodie
>
>> ----------
>> From: Michael Healy
>> Reply To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:58 PM
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Subject: Re: Primitive Photography
>>
>> Hi, Alan. Thanks for your note, and for the clarification.
>> Fortunately, this
>> matter of lens angles and focal length is a subsidiary one in the
>> overall
>> context.
>>
>> I have been converting your 10x12" design to the layout for a 7x17"
>> camera.
>> So over the past few weeks I've had to pour over every last detail of
>> your
>> blueprint. I have to tell you something -- you have a very sound
>> design, and
>> a very clear book!
>>
>> I have to admit to a bias, too, against 3D design: my brain does not
>> do
>> this. Years ago I sailed confidently out of algebra, and then just
>> hit a
>> brick wall over geometry. So I have done a lot of squirming over your
>> blueprint. To make matters worse, I built a Bender 4x5 in the early
>> 1990s.
>> Thus armed, I figured that I was about to make myself descend into an
>> endurance test over this camera I want to make.
>>
>> I was completely wrong. Your blueprint works like a charm. It's been
>> perfectly accurate from start to finish. Better than that, your
>> instructions
>> are consistently lucid and sensible, even to somebody who shudders
>> over line
>> drawings. No matter how I've pushed it, it keeps making sense. I am
>> very
>> happy that I came across it!
>>
>> Mike Healy
>>
>>
>>
>
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