For all you Canadians out there wanting to make a six month pinhole camera, gaffer tape is duct tape in our world :) thanks for the great videos Justin, loving this.

Thank you :)

The only problem with using a metal can is that over 6 months you will find water condenses and collects in the bottom of the can. If your photopaper reaches to the bottom of the can it will get badly water stained. For this reason I prefer to use plastic rather than metal for the camera.

So don’t use gaffer tape across, so you use less gaffer tape. Three seconds later, because you’re obviously now obsessed with gaffer tape, you might as well just unnecessarily use another strip on top again…

This video is wonderful. A very well done tutorial. Thanks for sharing!

Amazing tutorial learned a lot, will it work with cyanotype or x-ray Filim with the same technique???

Exposure time is not just seconds/minutes?

They charge these for £16, called a solar can when u can make this at home...

00:07 Can preparation 01:03 Light-proof cap 03:54 Pinhole 04:44 Light-proof shutter 05:20 Loading the paper 07:31 Darkening demonstration 08:58 Sealing the camera 09:45 Final touches & Warnings 10:59 Film pot version 11:25 Taking down & Scanning

What happens if you use colour paper?

that's duct tape. gaffer tape is fabric and matte finish, not glossy vinyl plastic.

Can you scan using a photocopy scanner please?

Please explain. You put photosensitive paper in the can in full (not sun) light, you leave it out for 6 months....... what is the shutter for? Those few photons making it to the paper while you place it will not make any difference compared to what happens/happened will it? The idea however is awesome. Will do this.

A 1mm aperture is way to large for that focal length

Oh that's the other name for duct tape lol

Was fantastic to see you on the George Clarke programme just now! With a modernisation of the development technique 😁

Fantastic training material. But I have attention. Photosensitive paper placed on the concave wall of the can causes distortion of the image. I suggest trying to put the photosensitive paper on a flat surface, on the opposite side of the hole. Use a shoe box as a "camera obscura", for example. It used to be negative film, now the transducers are flat.

helping me in my science project

What is the recommended ISO or speed of the paper?

Love the instructions. To clear up a controversy - How many times does the letter ' i 'appear in the word aluminum ? Twice? Nope.

This is a very easy tutorial but plz someone make a tutorial to follow this tutorial

Fantastique !

help! there is a street light in front of my camera which turns on at nights. is it going to burn the paper and ruin the image?

Pretty cool! Great video. Do you have any comments on placement of the camera, for the duration of months? Thanks.

Amazing how much white people have done for modern society. So cool

Any chance you have a copy of the directions you would send home? Will be trying with my MS students this Spring.

I’m hoping this isn’t a dumb question. I’m building a few of these now and assume that you take the shutter tape off once it’s installed and ready to capture an image?

Lovely

Thanks for this lesson in my late 30th. ) A little bit envy novadays chikdren can get such great classes.) Keep going! )

The circle I cut wasn’t bad enough, so the whole camera was ruined D:

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What size of photographic paper would you recommend suitable?

This must be the best KZfaq tutorial I have ever seen. This got me motivated to try it

Well done Justin

Thank you so much for sharing this. ♥️♥️♥️

Great video (and fun to watch!), me and my housemate have just put two up today!

cool

Absolutely brilliant! I plan to build one, and put it on the balcony of my flat (which I haven't visited for ages--the balcony, I mean). Even better, I get to have a beer first. ;D

wow

I loved this video and he saved the best for last. The whole video I was wondering how to get the image.

Well done 👍

Fantastic video 😍✌️

i love this. thank you!!!

Really really great Vid. Thanks a million for sharing.

Excellent project and tutorial! This was a fun video to watch, and it'll be fun to do with the kids. Developing the paper is the only reason we haven't done pinhole photography with them yet-I've never just left photo paper out, so I had no idea it would darken without chemicals! One thing I'd recommend (at least in the States) if you're planning to leave it in a public place, is to not attach it to park benches, play equipment, etc. Wouldn't want anyone to think it's a dangerous device someone placed (especially if it's partially hidden). Around here attaching it to a bench leg like that would result in a guest appearance by the bomb squad. I'm excited to browse through the other videos here! This one was super cool, thank you for sharing your design!

Wonderful... I'm going to find my can and get out there! Thank you

Bought my supplies today :D Thanks for the video!

Back in the mid-50s when I attended YMCA summer camp, the science cabin guy showed us how do put paper in a glass and wood frame with leaves on top of the paper then expose it to the sun. Were they called SolarGraphs? I want to think he somehow permanently fixed the images but don't recall after over 60 years. Like you said, if someone developed the paper it would be black or if they used fixer, the image would go away. Is there a way to permanently process the images?

Very nice. But I kinda winced when you were so casual about handling the paper in normal room light. I can just see someone doing that then ruining a whole pack of paper that could have been used for normal darkroom enlarging work.