Summary: Making a Polaroid pinhole camera requires using the body of an old Polaroid camera. Make a Polaroid pinhole camera with tips from a professional photographer in this free photography video.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
Photography is the practice of making images by exposing film or another medium to a timed flash of light. The basic equipment used for photography has changed dramatically in the last decades, many people finding digital photography an inexpensive and creative hobby. Mastering the art of photography is a technical and challenging experience. Even with an automatic, digital camera, one has to learn how to frame a shot, choose a background, interact with the subject, use natural light, and select the right supplies and tools. Photography is all about experimentation. In this free photography video series, a professional photographer demonstrates how to make and use a Polaroid pinhole camera. Find an old Polaroid camera body, and learn to transform an otherwise broken piece of equipment into a working pinhole camera. Learn the science behind pinhole cameras, and expose images using Polaroid film. Start experimenting with light and photography with this informative guide.
"My name is Anthony Maddaloni. I'm a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. Today I'm going to talk about a pretty unprofessional little camera I have going on here. This is a Polaroid LAN camera automatic 350 that I got at a garage sale a few weeks ago. The camera didn't work. I think I paid $1 for it, and I really like just playing around with cameras, and I decided that I wanted to make a pinhole camera out of this camera because the shutter was disabled, completely rusted, falling apart, but nonetheless I saw what a camera really is. Just a box with a lens and a place for the film to go, or your paper to go, or however you want to expose something. And I said I'm going to play around with this and I'm going to make a pinhole camera, sort of a pinhole camera out of this Polaroid camera. I'm going to buy some Polaroid film and see if this works. And I also am going to put a lens on the camera because the lens was broken, and this lens you can see I attached very unprofessionally with some tape there. And it's actually an enlarging lens. This is a lens that I would use on a photographic enlarger. I found this lens on a very old enlarger and I put it on the camera."
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