{"id":1296,"date":"2021-01-15T17:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2021-12-24T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T22:20:07","slug":"kamra-e-faoree-afghan-box-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/15\/kamra-e-faoree-afghan-box-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamra-E-Faoree (Afghan Box Camera)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a project this year, I am attempting  to make a Kamra-E-Faoree, also known as the Afghan box camera. There is a lot of information and great example of images taken with this type of camera in Lukas Birk&#8217;s book &#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxcameranow.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Box Camera Now<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what I have constructed so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"963\" src=\"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afgan-camera-1024x963.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afgan-camera-1024x963.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afgan-camera-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afgan-camera-768x722.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/afgan-camera.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Box camera construction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have constructed the body, the focusing screen\/film holder and the internal supports for film holder and focus rod. I will use a 135mm f4.7 Graphlex Optar lens on the camera. I mounted the lens and it projects a nice image on the ground glass that I made out of an acrylic sheet. I have made it so the film holder can be rotated so both horizontal and vertical pictures can be taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next I will be making the rear door, the arm hole and the lid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some videos that show <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/32748604\" target=\"_blank\">the camera in operation<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V-V3Qqx4Qpk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">construction steps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a project this year, I am attempting to make a Kamra-E-Faoree, also known as the Afghan box camera. There is a lot of information and great example of images taken with this type of camera in Lukas Birk&#8217;s book &#8220;Box Camera Now&#8220; Here is what I have constructed so far: I have constructed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/15\/kamra-e-faoree-afghan-box-camera\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kamra-E-Faoree (Afghan Box Camera)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,18,5],"tags":[59,60],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-camera","category-cameras","category-photography","tag-box-camera","tag-kamra-e-faoree"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1300,"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronyoung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}