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Sad news indeed, even though I'm not really a regular here.

Now that I have the film back and scanned at higher resolution I'm a little happier with the results. The graininess is mostly gone, exposure looks pretty close to slightly under exposed, and the...

The last one in part three and the first two in part four are my favorites. Next time I do the train tracks I'll have to bring a full size tripod to get a little higher angle, not liking the low...

Yeah, I knew that at most reasonable enlargement it would be soft, but these still seem too soft.

Pictures are here:
http://www.f295.org/main/showthread.php?19412-Wooden-Dirkon
Low res scans from the processor. Not sure I'm very happy with it, exposure is hard to tell since I don't have the...

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waterfall

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waterfall

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smaller pond, looked interesting to my eye, obviously missing something to the camera.

Discussion of the camera here:

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waterfall

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waterfall again

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waterfall again

part 2

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pond

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pond again

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ducks

Wooden Dirkon part 1, these are low res scans from the film processor. Old expired and not properly stored Kodak BW400CN film. Build thread down in the lensless building/modifying section.
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I finally sent off a roll this past Monday, hoping to have the film back early next week. Then I'll decide if it is worth finishing the work. Still need to glue the front lens board in place, and...

That is a fine looking camera and takes a good image too.

They are probably trying to figure out how these are used in drug creation.

If you look around, I think you can find smaller CF tubing, but for anything larger than a 8mm sized frame it is going to get expensive fast. It will also get you down into pinhole sized internal...

It might be worth contacting Corning Glass and asking them if they have anything that they can't use or sell, you might be surprised. I would definitely show them what you already accomplished so...

It's neat that you actually got an image, I was concerned that the bouncing light down the straw would wreck everything.

So this is what I produced, quick and dirty scans from the processor, I won't be scanning the film when it returns.

In this image yo can see the outer edge of the aperture after it has slid out of...

On a second look at the camera, it seems I may have taken all of this roll with around a 1mm hole, the aperture drops out of its holder pretty easily and leaves a rather larger hole behind. Guess I...

The first roll is almost back, they uploaded some low resolution scans and the results are not great. #1 it looks like I need to work on the shutter a little, got a corner of some images blocked out,...

How is the detail of the film? Exposure looks really good.

And enjoy it while you can get it, Kodak is not producing the 120 size of this film, sticking with 35mm for some reason.

I have a...

Surprised they still carry it, most of the cool gears and stuff went away.

Used to be able to buy long lengths of needle grade bulk stainless tubes, might want to check on that and just super glue or epoxy them together. Somewhere I still have some of this around, really...

Check Mcmaster-carr, I bet that same brass is cheaper. But it is still brass and that makes it expensive.

That's the same thing I thought about the fibers.

There are many small metal tubes that you might be able to use to get smaller diameters, but not going to be as cheap as straws. You might find...

How about a darkslide shutter, that way the area will be much smaller.

Can you calculate exposure based on a pinhole of similar size and distance from the film? The mystery will be if it produces a coherent image or if it produces a pattern of overlapping images like a...