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Misc Medium Format Pinhole Cameras

This exhibit celebrates all the odd and esoteric medium format pinhole cameras that don't have a home in other, stand-alone exhibits.

Zeb's Pumpkin Pinhole

Zeb constructed this pinhole pumpkin, complete with 4x5 film holder. Happy Halloween, everyone!

Mr. Pinhole's 6x9

Some cameras are ubiquitous, others are truly one-of-a-kind. Earlier this year, the fellow who ran the Mr. Pinhole website passed away. In the process of trying to find a home where his camera collection would be used and appreciated, his wife found us. He had built several custom pinhole cameras, this piece being one of them. True to pinhole philosophy, the structure of this camera is pretty simple. The camera consists of a nicely weathered wood body, fitted with a Graflock holder and a 6x9 120 roll film back. It is a beautiful camera, as much for its appearance, as for its history of being lovingly made and faithfully used.

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Vermeer 6x17 anamorphic.

Do you realize just how many different makes of pinhole cameras an intrepid photographer can choose from these days? Let's run through several. There's Zero Image, ONDU, Reality So Subtle, Lensless, Vermeer, Lerouge, Luvitech, Delamont, Mottweiler, and the Pop Up Pinhole Company...to name but a few. A customer even showed us an 8Banner pinhole they had recently found on-line. Those and Holga pinholes are now discontinued but can still easily be found. And the format options! Hold on, here we go: 35mm, 35mm pano, 6x4.5, 6x6, 6x7, 6x9, 6x12, 6x17, 6x18, 4x5, 5x7, 8x10, omniscope, anamorphic, flat-plane and curved-plane. See, the thing is is that human imagination must be near boundless. Take a camera technology built on simple, easy-to-build-and-modify principles and put it into creative hands and soon enough you will be buried under possibilities become realities. This is just one of the aspects that make pinhole photography so fun. Pictured here: Vermeer 6x17 anamorphic.

Pete Helzer's Homemade Pinhole

Approximately 200 years ago Nicéphore Niépce built, what some consider, the first photographic camera. Since then, humans have designed and built so many wonderful successors! With all this industry innovation, we have to admit that some of our favorite cameras continue to be the one-of-a-kind models our customers build with their own hands. Pete Helzer brought us this 4x5 pinhole camera he recently finished and already has plans for a second camera.

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Pumpkinblad

In the spirit of Halloween, we have an additional treat for you. No trick, don't worry!

The Pumpkinblad is exactly the kind of thing that happens during lunch breaks at the shop. Fitted with the best pinhole that grocery store aluminum foil can provide, and compatible with all Hasselblad V system film backs, this camera is just begging to be the centerpiece of your kit... until it starts to mold in a week.

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Bubinga 6x6

Looking to get into lensless photography? Made in Portland Oregon by camera maker Mike Schmalzer, these two Bubinga 6x6 pinholes graced our inventory for a short while.

They create 6x6 negatives on 120 film. The version on the right is a wide angle version.