goyablog

I am sooooooooo bummed. We started to develop some of the kids’ oatmeal canister pinhole shots and they are are way overexposed, to the extent that a slow, glowing, global light leak is likely the culprit. I just knew the cheap-ass oatmeal canisters nowadays would be a problem. The Quaker Oats looked flimsier than the Kroger generic, so I got the generic and painted the insides the black-duct-taped the outsides the best I could. However, a section around the shutter (which appears light-tight when checked, cannot be easily taped because of the shutter mechanism there. I think that’s the weak spot. Funny thing is, all three cameras checked out fine during the test shots, but the test did not include running around for many minutes in daylight with the film in the camera. We got partial images on the last two shots that were done late in the day and were not subjected to as much running around in the daylight. I’m sooooooooooo bummed–the kids spent a good two hours making the cameras and all afternoon having fun taking shots they really wanted to see. But, they still had fun doing it and it was a great day. We’ll try to salvage something from the mess tomorrow….