1. The Untimely Excursion
This camera is a combination of a telephoto-pinhole mailing tube, a 4x5” large-format film back and a rifle scope, measuring at 1.8m and with an aperture of f/1250.
Seemingly too ridiculous to be operational, it is an embodiment of our equipment fetish brought to the extreme, as well as a comment on how cameras change the way we engage / hunt down our subjects.
To use the camera is somewhat like a ritual, or a performance completed by the two of us: we set up the tripod, slot in the chassis, slide in the film holder and go back and forth, aiming and framing - until one finally gives the order to fire the shutter.
This camera is a combination of a telephoto-pinhole mailing tube, a 4x5” large-format film back and a rifle scope, measuring at 1.8m and with an aperture of f/1250.
Seemingly too ridiculous to be operational, it is an embodiment of our equipment fetish brought to the extreme, as well as a comment on how cameras change the way we engage / hunt down our subjects.
To use the camera is somewhat like a ritual, or a performance completed by the two of us: we set up the tripod, slot in the chassis, slide in the film holder and go back and forth, aiming and framing - until one finally gives the order to fire the shutter.
Cardboard mailing tube fitted with birchwood chamber
Compatible with 4x5 film holders and polaroid backs
Weatherproofed with Ronseal Black Paint
Mounted with 4-20x rifle scope
1850mm, f/1250
Exposed on 4”x5” HP5+ film, EI 1600 ISO
Exposure time around 8s under f/16 sunlight
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