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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.

LAM  POK  YIN
林       博       彥



a. the untimely apparatus
    of two amateur photographers

    / part i: telescopic mailing tube
    / part ii: spherical panorama
     / part iii: photography as pastime
    / part iv: operation in the field

    / statement
    / installation view
   

b. other works    
    / when you’ve lost your camera    
    / functional monument   
    / lights unfixed   
    / air (6.75m3)



c.  about
1. Bird Hunting with Tele-Pinhole Camera, Excursion #5 2. Tele-Pinhole Camera 3a-c. Results from Bird Hunting Excursion #2











1. Bird Hunting with Tele-Pinhole Camera, Excursion #5
2. Tele-Pinhole Camera

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
3a-c. Results from Bird Hunting Excursion #2

Exposed on 4”x5” HP5+ film, EI 1600 ISO
Exposure time around 8s under f/16 sunlight