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Zero Image 6x9

These wooden pinhole cameras are handmade by Zernike Au of Zero Image in Hong Kong. They are lovingly crafted out of teak and then varnished to make them further resistant to the elements.

The Zero Image 6x9 is natively a 6x9cm format pinhole camera, but it can be adjusted to expose 6x4.5cm, 6x6cm or 6x7cm images. The 6x9 cameras may be purchased either in their basic configuration, with no additional features or as deluxe models that also include a bubble level and cable release.

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Zero Image 6x9 in the Columbia River Gorge

Some tripod gymnastics performed out in the Columbia River Gorge with a well used Zero Image 6x9 pinhole... it seems some old dogs can learn new tricks.

Zero Image 6x9 OG and the modern Zero Image 6x9

Past and present collide. ⠀ ⠀

On top, you have the year 2000 edition of the Zero Image 6x9, and below is its 2019 incarnation. We are fascinated by the comparison. What started as a simple wooden box of a pinhole is still very much a simple wooden box of a pinhole. In 2019, you can deck yours out with a bubble level, cable release adapter, and brass edge protectors - even the color of the varnish has warmed up quite a bit. Of course, these cameras are in the process of evolving, as you read this.⠀

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Zero Image 6x9

A quick thought... many of us photographers go to beautiful places with our cameras and then spend way too much time behind those cameras; distracted by the equipment from what really drew us out there. We bustle and scramble to find our shots, making great photos so that we can have great memories of these beautiful places. But always, between us and "there," is the camera. If we're not careful, our cameras can become a barrier of sorts. ⠀

Which is why, on this day, we took a beautiful camera to a beautiful place. We loaded it with a really slow infrared film and mounted an R72 filter in front of it. The exposure was 20 minutes. So what did we do once that shutter was opened?

Nothing.

We sat, we watched the water fall and the passing light. We listened. We thought, but not about photography. We let go and we enjoyed. And we did this without the camera being between us and where we were.⠀ ⠀

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Zero Image 6x9

Zero Image 6x9 in the Columbia River Gorge

Zero Image 6x9 OG and the modern Zero Image 6x9

Zero Image 6x9

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