Antique Agfa Clack Gets Modified into a Three Aperture Pinhole Camera

Last Updated on 12/19/2013 by Kevin Lee

All photos by Andreas. Used with permission

When most people think of making a pinhole camera, it’s something striped down like a blacked out capsule to hold the film and one tiny hole to let light through. Instructables’ “Andyk75” or Andreas, on the other hand, did the opposite and converted a 60-year-old antique camera into the ultimate pinhole camera complete with three differently sized and switchable pinhole apertures.

There’s an old adage: a pinhole camera, by definition, has no lens. Well not this one. For Andreas’ build he chose to use an Agfa Clack, a medium format film first introduced in 1954, complete with a 95mm meniscus lens.

To create the multi-aperture element, Andreas also poked three meticulously sized holes in aluminum foil that would give him fstops at f8, f16, and f256. Amazingly, he modified the camera so the existing aperture selector would allow him to change the fstop without having to crack the camera open again.

It’s certainly more involved than painting an Altoids tin, poking a hole in the middle, and throwing in some film before calling it a day. But we think the lo-fi and slightly hazed lens results are worth the effort, his photos are after the jump.

Via Instructables

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