126 Pinhole Camera

Kodak Instamatic X-15 Pinhole Camera


I remember converting a Kodak Instamatic X-15 into a pinhole camera for a class in college. It didn't work very well and I must have gotten rid of it afterwards, because no trace of it remains. All I have is a few pictures it took.

126 Pinhole Camera

14 Nov 2013 3 464
Back in 1979 when I had just started college, my second experimental homemade camera used 126 cartridge film. Unlike my first pinhole camera that used 4x5 inch sized film paper negatives and turned out pretty good, this camera was not a success. The pictures from this one, (this is a sunset in my backyard), had no clarity at all and although you can't tell it in this particular shot, had serious vignetting problems along the right third of the frame. Camera: Instamatic 126 converted into a pinhole camera Film: Kodak Safety Film, 100 ASA 126 size Aperture: ? Exposure length: 3 seconds Date: September 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.

126 Pinhole Test Sunset

15 May 2015 1 1 406
This is an image I took for a photography class when I was attending college. All I can remember about it is that I used a 126 Kodak 100 ASA film cartridge and that the pinhole didn't turn out to be real round. I was thinking that I converted a Kodak Instamatic X-15 into a pinhole camera, but could never find the actual camera. I either got rid of it for some unknown reason or converted one of the three I have back to normal.