Lomography Paper Pinhole Camera

by Lomography

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000MPC4VQ
• Item model number: 870
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,284 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

A bottle of glue, a ruler, and a pencil are the only things separating you for pure & crushing pinhole ecstasy. The Hole-On-Ex is a palm-sized 35mm camera that you construct with your very own blood, sweat, & tears In exchange for about 90 minutes of your hard labor, you'll be handsomely rewarded with intense pinhole images, a new appreciation for the mechanics of photography, & an insanely charming new tool to shoot from the hip. Add the "Adventures in Pinhole" book at a special price! Do It Yourself / The Hole-On-Ex Paper Pinhole Camera Recommended Tools: (1) Ruler - Use for parts folding (2) Pen or Pencil - Use for parts rolling (3) White Glue - Use for parts sticking These three tools, about 90 minutes of your precious time, & a bit of precise finger-work are the only things separating you from your very own god's honest self-made camera creation From four die-cut pieces of paper card, you will meticulously construct an insanely charming little beastie that fully capable of shooting seriously devastating pinhole images 43 individual pieces are sitting tight - ready to be punched out, rolled up, stacked, shimmied, & glued. If you've ever fantasized about getting "Back to Basics," then this is the opportunity of a lifetime Can you taste the delicious anticipation of building this compact masterpiece? Then be sure to keep your lips moist to sample the pictures that it takes. In the grand tradition of pinhole photography, the Hole-On

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars more complicated than it seems, December 26, 2010

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M. Ung (Ann Arbor, MI) - See all my reviews
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the description made this piece of craftwork seems very easy (1-2 hrs to put it together) but in reality it really took ~ 6 hrs (alright I was kinda watching movie at the same time...). I used the white glue, which takes some time to dry up. You do have to hold the pieces together while the glue is drying, so that's why it took so long to finish the craftwork.

There are several typos in the numbering of the pieces (in the manual) that made the put-together a little bit confusing, but as long as you have an idea what this project is about, you can figure it out easily. Just beware when you are putting the 'shutter' together, measure well before you glue -- you might have to trim off part of the 'shutter' piece to get the pieces together if you don't. In order to make the shutter piece end up in the right place on the finished camera, check the placement of the shutter (by rotating the 'shutter' piece (before gluing the 'lens' piece) 90-degree on the 'body' piece) before putting the 'lens' and 'shutter' pieces together.

About the black paper for fixing light leaking, it is essential -- the cardboard paper for the camera body is not totally opaque, so make sure you stick your eye in the body compartments and check for ANY sign of light, especially the edge.

Overall this is a fun craftwork to work on as long as you have an idea what a pinhole camera is.

Now the tough part is to find a camera shop that still develops films...

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Meh, July 26, 2010

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Beatrice Hatcher "Book Eater" (At Home) - See all my reviews
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I'm not really sure what I was expecting. It was a slow process to build the camera since glue does not seem to stick well enough to the material. I tried several types of glue and decided that rubber cement, Bobby pin clamps and time worked. There are parts of the camera that required taping as I could see no other way to attach it to the body of the camera. I have yet to develop pictures from my camera-- I'm not confident that the shutter piece was open and closed properly since the camera parts kept coming off while I took pictures. Overall I feel disappointed with this kit.

3 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!, December 23, 2007

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J. Paakaula "jessna15" (Pensacola, FL) - See all my reviews
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Thanks for the quick shipping, great product, my husband is big into photography and has finally gotten what he wanted! Thanks again!