When I was a Boy Scout, I made my own 4x5 pinhole camera from cardboard.Some
folks have made them from those cylindrical Quaker Oatmeal boxes. An 8 year
old can do this.
Regards,
Bob...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: Next move from Pentax: anyone in the know (even under NDA) ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Blakely"
> Subject: Re: Next move from Pentax: anyone in the know (even under NDA) ?
>
>
>> Students should be required to make and use their first camera - a
>> pinhole.
>> After this, students should be required to use cameras without batteries.
>> Camera won't work without batteries? Get one that does! Light meters
>> should
>> be forbidden until at least half way through the course.
>
> I know that your tongue is somewhat in cheek with this, but you aren't too
> far off the mark for what should be expected of photography students. The
> local tech college here is still issuing 4x5 cameras to students, and the
> Don has been bugging me recently to part with my mechanical cameras, which
> are quite in demand due to attrition.
> I wouldn't ask a student to build their own camera unless they were also
> in
> the carpentry program, as one skill isn't necessary for the other, but I
> wouldn't issue them zoom lenses ever, and if the course happened to
> include
> digital cameras, they would get a hobbled RAW converter and nothing else
> for
> post processing.
> Let the little bastards learn how to make their pictures without
> Photoshop.
> One of things I am being asked to do quite often at the shop is to fix
> pictures taken by supposed pros that should have been easy images to make
> if
> the person had a clue about what they were doing.
>
> William Robb
>
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