Tales on Film

2 days ago Ilford photo announced a new package they will be offering starting from the end of october.

At the Focus on imaging fair earlier this year, Ilford showed a prototype of a new pinhole camera. By the end of october this camera will be available from your local ilford dealer. The package will consist of a pinhole camera with 72mm wide angle lens with plastic cone, 10 sheets of positive paper, 10 sheet of ilford delta 100 negative film and a pinhole exposure calculator based on a design by Richard Koolish. The camera features a 4×5 large format design, everything is provided except for the 4×5 film holder. The whole package will be sold for £ 150 including VAT.

I would like to test the package and write a review, so if anybody of ilford is reading this, please send me a review copy. On top of that I find it very reassuring that Ilford is releasing a new pinhole camera as a package, that means there is still some hope for us film shooters.

Over at the Lomography magazine blog I found Italian photographer Francesco Capponi, who makes pinholes out of almost everything you can imagine. He came to my attention when he posted an article about the pinhegg. Which is a pinhole camera made from the inside of an egg.

In the article he explains how he made the pinholes by using liquid photographic emulsion. You can read all about it at the link I posted above. He came up with the idea because he loves the idea of having a pinhole, where the camera also becomes the photo. I think it’s a great idea.

When I checked out his website I found several other very interesting pinholes he made. I’ll show a couple of them below with a resulting photo.

The fotofonia camera, a piano converted to several pinholes at once.

An origami pinhole camera, where the camera is the photo too.

Why not build a pinhole camera in a tree…

There are several more pinholes on Francesco’s website