How-To Make Three corrugated 8x10 Pinhole Cameras: Wide-angle, Normal, Telephoto [Paperback]

Anita Chernewski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0967914701 | ISBN-13: 978-0967914701

How-To-Guide on constructing and using a large 8x10 corrugated pinhole camera. It instructs you on how to make three different cameras: wide-angle, normal and telephoto. Included in the booklet are six ( lenses ) 1.5-in. sq. sheets of .002 brass shims. Three shims have individual precision hand-drilled pinholes in different diameters the extra blank shims are included for the buyer to make their own pinholes; explained in STEP 9 How-to-make a pinhole. The How-To-Guide includes: Historical notes, Technical facts, where to buy 8x10 film and how to make a 12-inch square platform for a tripod stand.

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About the Author

Anita Chernewski a New York photographer grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Chernewski's photography career started in the 1960's along with her other interests of art, film making, theatre and drama. She was intrigued with the magic that went on behind the scenes: set design and lighting. She bought a second hand camera and started photographing dolls and marionettes. The dolls became her theatre troupe; her cast of characters. This led her to another series called "Wild Illusions" a group of photographs taken of the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The inanimate objects became her models, and the stage was set.

Ms. Chernewski's other series include still life's, amusement parks and abstracts. She uses various photographic cameras such as 35mm , large format and pinhole cameras. She prints her images using different processes such as gelatin silver, vandyke, cyanotype and palladium.

Ms. Chernewski's work has been exhibited internationally, and her photographs are in the permanent collections at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and in numerous private and corporate collections.

Product Details

• Paperback: 16 pages
• Publisher: Pinhole Format Co (April 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967914701
• ISBN-13: 978-0967914701
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,214,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good BOOKLET--this is not a book!, September 21, 2003

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Erin - See all my reviews

This review is from: How-To Make Three corrugated 8x10 Pinhole Cameras: Wide-angle, Normal, Telephoto (Paperback)

This book is a nice little booklet on how to make a pinhole camera--it even includes six lenses! But it is a bookLET. It is made of cardstock-like paper and is about 16 pages long. It won't matter, I assume, to some--I just wanted all to know what they were paying $15 for. (I was expecting a book.) But again--it does have good information in it. I'm using it to help teach a photography class in a high school.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Quite disappointed, March 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: How-To Make Three corrugated 8x10 Pinhole Cameras: Wide-angle, Normal, Telephoto (Paperback)

The pamphlet itself was disappointing, only redeeming factor was the the included pinholes. Really feel that this is overpriced for the information received.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lanny R. North, February 20, 2006

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This review is from: How-To Make Three corrugated 8x10 Pinhole Cameras: Wide-angle, Normal, Telephoto (Paperback)

Excellent little book. Although I handicrafted the cameras I use out of wood, the three cameras outlined in the book are excellently constructed and what is more offer interchangeable parts that make it easy to use a variety of pinholes. The pinholes that come with the book are themselves worth the price of the book. I found that the pinhole construction was one of the variables that is the most difficult to realize. Needle sizes are, it seems, no longer numbered by the old method. A #10 needle size is hard to nail down. Measurements on that fine a scale almost as difficult. The technics of achieving a smooth ly rounded hole are not often elaborated. So for a true beginner, the cameras, the provided pinholes and the details given in the text combine to make the time between book purchase and great photographic results joyfully short.