If you're sick of your top-of-the-line DSLR and want to do something different, try this (and sell me your 1D):
All you need is a Bengawan solo mooncake tin and an empty aluminum can.
Cut a small piece of aluminum from the aluminum can, and drill a hole in it using a sewing needle. You will need some very fine sandpaper to sand the hole. This will be your pinhole plate. The procedure can be found here:
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam3.htm
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam4.htm
Then make a hole in the Bengawan Solo (or any other shop) mooncake tin, and use duct tape to attach the pinhole plate over it.
This is what the back of the tin cover looks like:
The shutter is just a piece of black cardboard taped over the pinhole. Exposure times are in the region of 1-4 minutes, so any movement while opening and closing the shutter will not matter, unless you're pointing directly at the sun.
You need a darkroom with a safelight, which costs about $18 at Ruby Photo. You can use your toilet, if you can tape up the windows with black cardboard, or make black curtains.
This is what a safelight looks like:
The photo paper needs to be loaded in the darkroom. A simple matter of using blutack to stick it onto the tin. Then you close the tin and the shutter and you're in business!
All you need is a Bengawan solo mooncake tin and an empty aluminum can.
Cut a small piece of aluminum from the aluminum can, and drill a hole in it using a sewing needle. You will need some very fine sandpaper to sand the hole. This will be your pinhole plate. The procedure can be found here:
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam3.htm
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam4.htm
Then make a hole in the Bengawan Solo (or any other shop) mooncake tin, and use duct tape to attach the pinhole plate over it.
This is what the back of the tin cover looks like:
The shutter is just a piece of black cardboard taped over the pinhole. Exposure times are in the region of 1-4 minutes, so any movement while opening and closing the shutter will not matter, unless you're pointing directly at the sun.
You need a darkroom with a safelight, which costs about $18 at Ruby Photo. You can use your toilet, if you can tape up the windows with black cardboard, or make black curtains.
This is what a safelight looks like:
The photo paper needs to be loaded in the darkroom. A simple matter of using blutack to stick it onto the tin. Then you close the tin and the shutter and you're in business!