Pinhole Camera Shutters

Flap/tape/piece of cardboard

• Flap shutter (1)
• Flap shutter (2)
• Tape shutter with metal pinhole cover

Sliding shutters (cardboard, wood, metal)

• Cardboard slide shutter (1)
• Cardboard slide shutter (2)
• Wooden slide shutter
• Metal slide shutter (1)
• Metal slide shutter (2)
• Internal metal slide shutter
• Wood or cardboard slide shutter
• Vertical sliding shutter

Rotating/swinging shutters (cardboard, wood, metal)

• Cardboard rotating shutter
• Wooden rotating shutter (1)
• Wooden rotating shutter (2)
• Metal rotating shutter
• Elaborate metal rotating shutter
• Spring rotating shutter in metal

Cable release shutters (sliding or swinging, wood or metal)

• Drawing of shutter release sliding shutter
• Internal sliding shutter (1)
• Internal sliding shutter (2)
• Cigar box pinhole camera with cable release swinging shutter
• Cable release swinging shutter (1)
• Cable release swinging shutter (2)
• Cable release swinging shutter (3)

Magnet shutters

• Old 35 mm Pentona camera with magnet shutter
• Multiple pinhole Nimslo camera
• Can camera with magnetic latching shutters
• Cookie tin camera with glue-on magnet shutter on the lid

More ideas for shutters will be found in the f295 forum for construction of lensless cameras.

Last updated 7 June 2011.

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