terraPin Kaiju 6x18 Pinhole Gamera by schlem

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

Kaiju (怪獣) is a Japanese word that literally translates to "monster," and is used to refer to a genre of tokusatsu (special effects-based) entertainment. Kaiju films usually showcase monsters of any form, usually attacking a major Japanese city or engaging another (or multiple) monster(s) in battle.
I grew up watching Japanese Kaiju movies on TV every Sunday afternoon on channel 11's Sci-Fi Theatre. Gamera, a rocket-powered flying turtle beast, was and remains my favorite Kaiju. I hope it is obvious that the terraPin Kaiju is a giant mutant pinhole, a pinhole Gamera!
120 film!
6 X 18 cm frame!
116.5 degrees!
86mm concentric film plane!
Designed for 0.40mm pinhole!
f/215!
See terraPin High-Strength Winder (1/4" shaft) for additional winder/knob options!
Use exposure calculations for the PINH5AD!
Now with exposure calculations with Reciprocity Failure for common B&W films; see:
B&W_Pinhole_Exposure_Durations_Kaiju_f215.pdf
Featured on the Adafruit 3D Hangout for 7/2/15!
I typically embelish my pinhole cameras with knurling to add interesting visual and tactile textures. Unfortunately, the mutant size of the Kaiju required so many thousands of extra polygons that they constituted a persistant source of non-manifold errors and rendering ambiguity. I hope to further develop the Kaiju to include the knurling in the future and I cite the "Knurled Surface Library v2" by aubenc as recognition of his contributions to my camera design.
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NOTE
The sample photos are WIDE (6X18). Unless you view them full screen, they will be severly cropped. Normally, my local film lab scans my film, but 6 X 18 is too big for their NORITSU scanner. All scans shown are my ham-fisted work and may deviate from original exposures in various ways. I vow to do better.
NOW AVAILABLE 6X18 sanning adapter for the Epson V500!
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