A pinhole camera is almost a rite of passage in photography, given that you can make one so easily with little more than a cardboard box and enough tape to keep the light from coming through the cracks. [Socialmocracy] has made one that’s 3D printed, and it’s a nice design that takes 4″ by 5″ photographic paper. The shutter is held on with magnets, and the lid is attached with thumbscrews.
As neat as printed pinhole cameras are, it’s not as though they’re particularly uncommon. What makes this one stand out from the rest is that it’s actually two cameras in one. One box, two cameras, side by side. Landscape format and it’s a pair of panoramic cameras, while in portrait mode it’s a stereo camera. Even the simplest of cameras can do wigglegrams!
We like this camera, because it manages to add something to such a simple formula.. He’s taking comments on whether to release the STLs, so drop in your two cents.
blah blah blah. Noise and babble. No useful information until past 12 minutes.
And what the heck is he pouring down his sink?
Developer, stop bath, fixer, rinse water.
City sewers provide so much dilution that the silver is (essentially) harmless.
Wouldn’t do this in a cesspool or septic tank, though.
You don’t pour the fixer down the drain. It goes back into to bottle for re-use. It takes a while to deplete fixer, especially at casual use levels.
The rinse water is probably OK, but the other three should not be put into a domestic waste water system.
Having said that, many local authorities here in the UK do allow the disposal of small quantities of developer and stop bath from amateur/home darkrooms.
Fixer is classed as a pollutant, disposal of it into the domestic waste water system is strictly forbidden. Fines can be up to £20,000 in a Magistrates Court, or unlimited in a Crown Court where it can also carry a custodian sentence of up to five years. Naturally you’d only see this scale of penalties for industrial scale pollution.
However if the level is high enough for the water company to detect, they can trace it back and you’d also cost recovery proceeding from them.
Fumble Finger Syndrome strikes again…
That last part should have said: “You’d also be facing cost recovery proceeding from them”
Oh boy here comes hackaday with yet another yt video.
Now that I have looked up wigglegram, why would anyone want to make one? Maybe to induce seizures?
Wigglegrams are neat when you take a shot of an event from several angles simultaneously, a mini bullet-time. Or they convey a 3D awareness effect that is also interesting. But you need a minimum of 4 lenses IMHO (I might concede to 3 if people have good arguments), 2 is more a let’s say ‘ping-pong cam’.
As for your seizures, you do know not everybody has severe epilepsy right? It suck if you do, but it’s not the natural state of all humans. And I expect people with non-severe epilepsy can watch 4 image wigglegrams without issues assuming the exposure settings of the frames are the same.
And that is probably the real issue for people with sensitivities, if the exposure is not synced you can get brighter and darker frames following eachother and that will cause issues for a percentage of folks.
Depending on the type and severity, even watching TV can trigger it if there are too many ‘cuts’ close together. It frightened the living daylights out of me the first time I saw it happen.