My pinhole is ready and it has already shot a few pictures. But first things first. Here’s the last part of the pinhole assemble.
Over the Easter holidays somewhere in the heart of the northeastern Portuguese country in a very small village named Cortiços, I took the time to finish the pinhole.

I just followed the instructions right here and folded and glued everything as you can see in the picture bellow.

This little box above is the black box, where you stick the metal sheet (mine was cut out of a Sumol Can) with the actual pin hole and where the film is exposed to the light. I used an old needle I found in a drawer, so I can’t really be sure about the precise measure of that hole. But hey, that’s the pinhole spirt, I guess.

Next I had to take apart an used film canister, flip around the spool and put it back together. This was the tricky bit of the whole thing. Next i taped the new unexposed film to the spool with black electrical tape so that I can wind it to rotate the film between exposures just like any film camera.

Next I mounted the film canisters in the black box.

Then I just put everything inside the Cheshire Cat box and it was ready to shoot. All I had to do was roll the film a pull that shutter up.

On the follow up post I will upload some pictures shot with this pinhole and i hope they are usable since it’s my first experience.

Take care.

I finally managed some spare time to print and cut out some of the pinhole parts.

I bought black cardboard to glue the printed pinhole paper parts because plain paper is just to thin to hold. As you can see bellow, I glued all the sheets to the cardboard before cutting out anything. I used stick glue for this. Regular tube glue usually taints the ink from the printer.

The glue was left to dry for a few minutes before i began cutting the pieces out. I recommend you use a ruler and a x-acto knife to cut everything nice and straight. Don’t use scissors to cut anything but the rounded flaps on the sides of the outside box. Trust me, I’ve got years of building models for my architecture project classes to back this up. Do not use scissors to cut paper unless you want it to look crooked, messy and poorly cut.

So my little friends, we’ve come to the end of part 1 and I leave you with all the nicely cut parts glued to the black cardboard.

You can expect a follow up post on this.

I’ve been meaning to make a pinhole camera for a long time but i never got down and did it. Well, I’m compromising here that I will make one and you are here by my witnesses.

Today I stumbled upon this website – www.corbis.readymech.com/en and came across some cool looking pinhole projects and decided with all my might a good will that I was going to make one. But me being a picky lady, I opened photoshop and started messing with one of their designs and decided to make a Tim Burton Cheshire Cat pinhole camera. I know, it’s lame but I like cats. Moving on…

This is the original pinhole camera design.

This is my model for the outside box that will contain the box for the actual 35mm film.

If you like my lame design you can download the template here so that you can build it yourself. I will require you to take pictures of it and with it and show me.
The rest of the pinhole project can be downloaded here, this is just the outside box, remember?

As I said before the copyright of this pinhole project belongs to Corbis. I just messed with it, printed a note with their copyright on my box and hope that they don’t get mad. It’s just a project that I’m doing for fun.

My next step is to buy stuff such as black tape, a can (with coca-cola inside so that i can drink it first), get film and print out the box and actually build it.

You can expect a follow up post about this.