Stuff I did when I was a kid

[Bamfster]

I remember back in jr high photography class doing stuff similar to that. We built "cameras" out of cardboard boxes. The "lense" was nothing more than different size holes punched in the cardboard. We would load them with b/w photo paper, aim it at an object and open the "lense".

We then would develop the paper in a darkroom, and if you timed the exposure right, you'd actually get an image of the object on the paper .....cool stuff.

[Stich496]

Never mind Hemi, I think you did a good job Squirrel!

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I wish I had photos of the stuff I build way back when..
we ( the ne'hood kids and I built a jr dragster way before there ever was a class..
'82 it was mad from fence tube and my moped engine.

[studemax]

Never mind Hemi, I think you did a good job Squirrel!

[HEMI]

[squirrel]

and this is the kind of stuff I took pictures of....a 56 Chevy Revell model I built, then rebuilt with my own chassis, made of brass square tubing, sheet tin, etc. I think I have it somewhere around here still. Notice the nicely trimmed prints, cutting straight lines in paper was something I hadn't figured out yet.

[squirrel]

Here's a neat picture, my older brother found the box of negatives from when I was young. This is a photo enlarger I built when I was about 13 or 14 (mid 1970s). It's made from an old Kodak camera my grandfather gave me, and a slide projector. I put the lenses from the projector in the sheet metal housing on top, with a light bulb. The negative fits in a plate I made to hold it in the camera where the film would go. The photographic paper goes in an easel on the base. I also modified an old timer that my dad had made as a patent sample long before then, and used it to time the exposure.

I made black and white prints at night in our kitchen. Fun stuff.