POSTED AT 9:44 AM July 31, 2007

Ceramic pinhole camera

This beautiful ceramic pinhole camera was made by Steve Irvine and documented on the Pinhole Forum. It's made of stoneware fired at 1,300C, and takes a four inch by five inch piece of photo paper. The negative holder is made from three strips of black weather stripping. Link (via Make)

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