I've been very frustrated in my efforts to make a pinhole camera.

I keep getting flare on most of my images. The only thing that would eliminate the flare was a lens hood and I started on one of those but, with the way the shutter worked, it was turning into a very clumsy affair. The plus side was that the images were very sharp for pinhole images and I was very excited about that. That project has been languishing because it just wasn't working and I was focusing on my lensed cameras. Then I came across a site where they used an old large format shutter to mount the pinhole.

Speed-i-o-scope Pinhole Shutter

I just happened to have the shutter off of my Agfa Isolette II. It is the one that I tried to clean and now the shutter leaves won't always close. I was going to get it fixed but had someone give me a good one. I think I will have to get it fixed after all

I gently removed the old pinhole from the lens mount. I need to chip out the rest of the bondo and then mount the Prontor S shutter (on the left) in the old Mamiya lens mount and mount the new pinhole in the Prontor S shutter. I think this is going to work out very well. I think I will be able to do some handheld pinhole by pushing some Delta 3200. It could be most interesting. I also found a source for better pinholes. The pinhole I had was pretty amazing. These new ones are even better. My old one was micro-drilled. These are done by lasers on even thinner stock.

Lenox Laser Pinhole Photography Products

I'm getting excited about the pinhole again.