Topic: Heavy pinhole action

[Francois]

Yep, it was bound to happen.
There are always some people who take things to the extreme just to see if it's possible.
I've seen wood pinholes. Plastic pinholes. Tin pinholes. But this is in a league of its own!
From now on, I think steel toe boots will be mandatory when using pinhole cameras 

Here's the how-to to this crazy project
Instructables

[astrobeck]

Thanks, but no thanks!
 
That's a bit extreme, even for me.
 

[Francois]

The project came from New Zealand... I guess that's all they have to work with down there since everything is so prohibitively expensive in that country

[zapsnaps]

I recall that there are one or two companies making loudspeakers out of concrete. The idea is to minimise cabinet vibration (= camera shake). But I'm not too sure I want speakers made out of concrete either.

[Francois]

I know there are plenty of DIY plans for cement speakers out there. I also heard that they sound incredible. Thing is, the cement won't vibrate like wood panels do. That way, you can put insanely powerful drivers in them without hearing cabinet induced noise. Also, they don't tend to move around very much...

[Cadha13]

So a literal Brick camera huh.

That would be awesome to put an M42 mount to. Or even a mount for a leaf shutter lens.

Even a 4x5 camera made out of concrete. Very little vibration there! 

[jojonas~]

concrete cameras? I'm a fan of this one

partly, because it's named MAGNUM 
http://www.kritikal.shared.hosting.zen.co.uk/cv/cameras/magnum.html

shots here: http://www.kritikal.shared.hosting.zen.co.uk/cv/pinhole%20photographs/magnum%20pages/eraser.html

[Francois]

I wonder if it came with a lift truck? 

BTW, there's some pretty nice cameras on this site!

[Ezzie]

The project came from New Zealand... I guess that's all they have to work with down there since everything is so prohibitively expensive in that country

Not really. It´s made to survive the 10.000 odd earthquakes a year.

[ManuelL]

Nice find - and so many applications...
- you can use it to work out while taking pictures
- you can take paparazzo photos and have somthing at hand to defend yourself against angry celebreties
- you can take pinhole photos from inside a tornado or hurricane
- with a little sealing and a gel before the pinhole you can sink it to the bottom of a lake and take under water pinholes
... the more I think of it, this might actually be something worth getting 

[Francois]

You can use it to take nice pictures of your desk (paperweight).
You can use it to take nice pictures of a breezy room in the summer (doorstop).
You can use it to take pictures of your heels... while you remove calluses.

Just don't leave it on a construction site or you'll possibly find it permanently embedded in a brick wall!