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July 26, 2005

How to Make a Homemade Shutter

Today was one of those days that starts out mediocre and gets worse as the day goes by. Hoping to salvage the last hours of my evening, I worked on my new pinhole camera. I recently bought a Polaroid 545 back on Ebay, and have been building a camera around it. So far, I am pretty happy with it, and I will show it to you more in the following posts. Tonight my challenge was to build a simple shutter system. Everything I have tried so far has been built of cardboard and tape, and it just hasn't worked as well as I would like. Looking through my junk, I found an old floppy disk. I rigged it up to a ballpoint pen, and the result appears to be a pretty sturdy homemade shutter system. The nice thing is that it gives me a bulb mode. Click the pen once, the shutter opens. Click it again and it closes. Perfect for a pinhole camera. A good end to a crappy day.

Posted by Adrian at July 26, 2005 11:07 PM