{"id":3726,"date":"2018-06-03T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2018-06-03T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:48:00","slug":"afghan-box-camera-a-k-a-cuban-polaroid-a-k-a-camera-minutera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/3726","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Box Camera a.k.a. Cuban Polaroid a.k.a Camera Minutera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feel I really understand something until I have had a go at it so, having watched some YouTube videos on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.afghanboxcamera.com\/\"> Afghan Box Cameras,<\/a> I had the urge to &#8220;waste&#8221; a couple of weekends building one. Now it is more or less working and I&#8217;ve learnt my lessons I can move on to something else &#8211; but wanted to capture here what I have done.<\/p>\n<p>Key for me are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognition of the amount of tweaking a design needs to get it working.<\/li>\n<li>Recognition of the skills required to work one of these things smoothly whilst chatting to the sitter.<\/li>\n<li>Admiration for the guys who built and used these for real to earn a living.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a video of my attempt.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Camera minitura\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hKq3Gy60YHs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A great place for more information is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afghanboxcamera.com\/\">Afghan Box Camera Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is an artist in Berlin who is using an old Camera Minutera to make interesting portraits. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cameraminuteraberlin\/\">Camera Minutera &#8211; Berlin FaceBook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Van Cleave did three videos about building a his one and goes into quite a lot of detail. Also check out the beard changes. (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/76_p89JW7v4\">Video 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EtP0Lh-z9FU\">Video 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gF5pnCg41Z4\">Video 3<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>My particular camera is going &#8220;up top&#8221; &#8211; which means I&#8217;ll put it on our high storage shelf till it takes my fancy again. I&#8217;m going to use the lessons learned to build a dark box for developing direct positive prints and contact printing 4&#215;5 inch prints taken with a regular large format camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feel I really understand something until I have had a go at it so, having watched some YouTube videos on Afghan Box Cameras, I had the urge to &#8220;waste&#8221; a couple of weekends building one. Now it is more or less working and I&#8217;ve learnt my lessons I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}