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

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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.

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

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.

I really enjoyed this pinhole booklet and making my pinhole camera. It gave me all the information I needed on how to build and use 8x10 corrugated pinhole cameras. Also enclosed in the booklet are three hand-drilled brass lenses for your pinhole cameras and three brass blank shims with instructions to make your own pinhole lenses.

Great book with the provided pinholes so you don't have to make them yourself. A good value to get you started with pinhole photography.