Pinhole Photography

This is my pinhole camera that I made. It took around 15 hrs. I am still working out the kinks. I will post more pics as I can.

Flickr slideshow of my photos

http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html

DIRKON – THE PAPER CAMERA

During the 1970s, magazines published in Communist Czechoslovakia were controlled by the state, like the majority of other enterprises. Very few good magazines were available and were difficult to get hold of, so people would borrow and exchange them when given the opportunity. This also applied to magazines aimed at young people, which was probably one of the reasons why almost everyone from my generation, when we get on to the subject of pinhole cameras, has fond memories of the cut-out paper camera known as Dirkon^*, published in 1979 in the magazine ABC mladých techniků a přírodovÄ›dců [An ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists].

Its creators, Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolář and Richard VyÅ¡kovský, came up with a functional pinhole camera made of stiff paper, designed for 35 mm film, which resembles a real camera. It may not be the most practical of devices, but it works!

Download printable versions of plans for the Dirkon

dirkon_en.zip (392 kB, compressed through WinZip)

dirkon_en.sit (397 kB, compressed through StuffIt)

dirkon_en.pdf (414 kB, uncompressed)*