This winter I found this vintage Hit Camera at an antique store, a miniature camera you could buy out of the back of a comic book in the 1950’s!
The camera is designed to use miniature roll film which is no longer manufactured anywhere, so while I attempt to figure out how to make my own, I removed the camera’s lens and mounted it on my Sony A7S II via a hodgepodge of adapters and tape.
Last year I picked up a Wanderlust Cameras 11mm Pinwide Pinhole lens. Wanderlust no longer makes this “lens” so it’s a bit hard to find, but I managed to snag one on Ebay for a decent price. Unlike a homemade pinhole lens, which I’ve made and used in the past, the Pinwide is precision milled and 3D printed and creates a much cleaner and sharper image. It has a Micro Four Thirds mount, but I’ve mostly used it on my Sony A7S II with an adapter.
Earlier this month the company I work for released a lens adapter called the ArtFx ColorFlare. This new adapter allows light to enter through the rear of an adapted lens, creating in-camera colored flare and light leak effects. My job was to demo the adapter and create product launch videos with the material I captured.