Unknown 620 Pinhole Camera

Unknown 620 Pinhole Camera


This was a cheap 620 camera, probably made by Imperial Camera Corp. in the 1960s, that I converted into a pinhole camera. It didn't work right, so I must have gotten rid of it long ago. But, I do have an image of it, an extreme crop from a larger picture that shows it.

Unknown 620 Pinhole Camera

25 Apr 2022 1 160
This is an extreme closeup of a picture that shows a cheap camera I used to have that I converted into a pinhole camera. By the shape of it, it looks like it might have been made by the Imperial Camera Corp. I know it used 620 film, because the pictures it took are all I have left of it. I must have gotten rid of it sometime because it didn't work like I wanted it to. Kodak 35 KSF 5075 17f-2ef (Crop)

620 Pinhole

14 Nov 2013 2 402
Another example of a 620 pinhole camera I was testing back in 1977. For some reason, all the negatives exhibit bad light leak problems. The fact that it resembles a shot taken with a fisheye lens is misleading. What is actually taking place here is I was shooting out my bedroom window through an arch opening out to the front yard and road beyond. The top half of the circle is the edge of the arch. The bottom half of the circle is the shadow created from the arch in addition to which it was a dark, cloudy day and what was in shadow just didn't get much exposure or light. Another thing I noticed was that, the only 620 cameras I had at the time were Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash cameras, which run the negative from above to below, making the images sideways compared to the number strips along each edge. This entire set of negatives featured the images right side up, with the number strips running above and below the image, as if the film travelled left to right. For the life of me, I can't image what I did or what camera I used to get the images to turn out that way.

620 Pinhole Experiment, Lincoln Mark V Poster On T…

14 Nov 2013 429
I found this envelope of 620 negatives and, for the life of me, cannot remember anything about the camera I used to take them. I'm thinking it must have been a homemade one because if I had just converted one of my old Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash cameras to a pinhole camera, the images would have been situated on the negatives differently. A Brownie Hawkeye's film transport is vertical, that is, the film is at the top and spools downwardly to the bottom. These negatives are all left to right spooled, so that seems to rule out a Brownie Hawkeye camera conversion. None of my other 620 cameras spool left to right so I'm left in the dark as what I used to take the pictures. Another clue that it might have been a homemade jobby was that the negatives show a serious light leak at both the top and the bottom of the strips. Also, from looking at the images, it looks like I got the hole too big. The images are all a little blurry and not very focused. Back in 1977 when I shot these, (1977 is most likely indicated), I probably considered the test to have been a failure. Now, they're just semi-interesting curiosities. Camera: Unknown Film: Kodak Safety Film 6014, 100 ASA 620 color film Date: 1977 (?) Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. This picture is the way it looked straight out of the camera. What could I do to it anyway to improve it? It's beyond all help.