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The NuBox 1 Interchangeable Lens Box Camera is Now on Kickstarter

Chris Gampat
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01/15/2018
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HCC MEDIA 10092017 Media Kit Images #22 (c) 2017 Robert Hamm

The world’s first interchangeable lens box camera, the NuBox 1 is live on Kickstarter noe.

A little while back, we reported on the NuBox 1–the world’s first interchangeable lens box camera that is an ode to the old Kodak Brownie cameras and many others. Today, the NuBox 1’s creator Robert Hamm is officially announcing the Kickstarter project that he’s been planning to do and working on for a really long time.

The NuBox 1 features a shutter speed of 1/200th and a lens with an aperture of f5.6 to f32. You may think that that is slow, but it’s for 120 film. They’re designed to be pretty affordable; so if yours breaks then you can easily replace it. Best of all, it’s already been made. So this project is more or less to get more materials and sort of a pre-order type of thing. This is easy to due because of 3D printing.

Other concepts are being worked on too, for example they want to make one that takes Instax film and another that uses 35mm films.

Here’s a quote from Robert from our interview earlier on.

Achieving nice bokeh in the background meant making sure that there was a long distance between my subject and the background. I think this is easiest to see in the images of my son in the field. In those images the background was about 100 feet behind the subject.
I used Acros 100 speed film and developed in ID11. I applied light editing in lightroom to clean up water spots and dust and up the clarity slightly.

I’m excited to share the simplicity of the Nu-Box 1 with you and your readers, Chris. I think the biggest draw of this camera is its simplicity. There is no focusing wheel. At the most common aperture for everyday photography, f22, everything about 7 feet to infinity is in focus. Framing a shot is as simple as looking through a ground glass viewfinder. What you see is what you get. There are framing indicators on the ground glass, but these will be used for the additional lens-cartridges when available. The shutter is a single action, single throw switch rated at 1/200th of a second. Just push the lever down to take a picture.

The film is loaded onto the cartridge on two spools. One spool is the supply spool. This spool contains all the film. You place it in the cartridge by snapping it into place and then pull the film onto an empty spool. The film is designed for this process, so it has a paper backing to protect the film and enough lead film to properly load the camera. Once the film is on the take up spool, you then click it into place. From this point you push the loaded cartridge into the main body, attach the winding knobs through the main body into the film spools housed in the cartridge, and wind the take up spool until you see the number 1 in a small window on the backplate of the camera. That’s it. There are several steps to the process, but it is not difficult by any means to load and use the camera. Once loaded, push the shutter lever, and wind the film to the next number. Simple as that.

Be sure to check out the NuBox 1 on Kickstarter.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.