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15-JUN-2006

15th June 2006 - pinhole

I’m numb tonight – four days and three (late) nights away from home, 500+ miles driven and wall-to-wall meetings. I’m pooped. I want some comfort food, a cuddle on the sofa with my precious peeps – DM, Rosie and Arch and an early night.

I got home from my jaunt to find DM had been busy making himself a pinhole camera from a cheap wooden flower pot he’d bought at Ikea last week, a coke can he’d cadged off our next door neighbour and some of Trago Mills’ finest catches. It’s all been painted black inside, made light-tight, stained and polished on the outside and now looks pretty stylish sitting on the sitting room window-sill, waiting for the film to arrive. If it doesn’t come tomorrow, I think he’s going to burst with excitement and anticipation.

This is it for tonight, I’m signing off through lack of energy and general lethargy….I expect after a night in my own bed I’ll be back on form tomorrow.

Hot stuff was in front of my camera last year....

Canon EOS 10D
1/125s f/16.0 at 75.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Michael Todd Thorpe18-Jun-2006 20:51
I'm looking forward to seeing what David gets with this...
Eric Hewis15-Jun-2006 22:13
Trago Mills don't sell glass plate film?, I'm surprised.
Gail Davison15-Jun-2006 22:11
Wow. David made that.... I am so impressed, it's beautiful aside from the fact that it's functional.
David Mingay15-Jun-2006 21:14
I thought I'd just point out that the pinhole itself is't installed yet, nor is the shutter. Cost so far:
plant pot holder: £2.50
catches: £2.20
screws: 33p
shutter (tap washer): 29p
paint & varnish: found in the garage
empty Coke can for pinhole: donated by Annie (next door)
Total: £5.32
Jim Ross15-Jun-2006 20:20
Looking forward to seeing the results... :-) Hope you have a good nights sleep...