A few shots taken in the city of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. They're done with my Gakken Stereo Pinhole camera using the panoramic mode. I had a some problems to wind up the film and for that reason I couldn't finish an entire roll of film. At least I could get these shots taken at the local cemetery using a very expired Ilford film from the 60's.

Gakken Pinhole Results

I really enjoy taking this camera with me whenever I'm out. I love the fact that is so light, it takes no space in my bag and I hardly get disappointed with the results. These were taken using a generic brand expired film and like how the colours came out surreal. I still need to work out better on how I frame my images using this camera as I missed some bits on the top of the images.

 

Gakken - Japanese Stereo Pinhole

A few pictures taken from my last holidays in Brazil with the Gakken Japanese Pinhole camera using the panoramic mode. The city scapes were taken in São Paulo and the last nine shots were taken in the town of Paraty  Rio de Janeiro, where the Paraty em Foco photography event is held every year.

Films are Jessops Diamond and the Kirkland made by Agfa, they're both expired.

Gakken - Japanese Stereo Pinhole

I had this toy on my wish list for ages and I finally got my hands on ! This is a DIY 35 mm Stereo Pinhole Camera made by Gakken, a pretty cool magazine in Japan where each issue comes with a different kit to assemble.

I'm quite impressed with quality of the kit, you don't need to understand Japanese and all you have to do is follow the pictures. I thought it was easy to put all the pieces together, everything fits well and as a result I got a really well made plastic camera with a cool design. The stereo viewer is the downside as the tapes provided were not good enough to keep the lens in place.

The camera has two modes: the stereo and the panoramic. I've already got a stereo camera so I took most of the shots with the pan mode, and I love it... I really recommend, specially if you want to try stereo photography. Most of the good stereo cameras are quite expensive and you might pay over £150.00 for a good one. I know there's been some plastic stereo cameras around (Loreo and Holga) for a reasonable price but I don't think you have the option to do both formats, besides the DIY fun and design are unique.

The picture below was the only one I took using the stereo format and later transformed into anaglyph file, in that way you can still see the 3D effect using a pair of red and cyan glasses.

My DIY chart with the exposure times that my Japanese friend kindly translated.