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Dr. HACKenstein

P164

This Vivitar Focus Free PN2011 was cheap, cheap, cheap - I only paid like $5 for this camera at a thrift store. This camera shoots 35mm film, has a fixed focus 28mm plastic lens, a fixed aperture of f/8, a fixed shutter speed of 1/125sec, and a fake panoramic mode via a switch on the back of the camera that activates an internal flip-down mask that crops the 35mm frame from the top and bottom into a panoramic aspect ratio.....kinda.

While surfing photoblogs I saw a post where some drilled tiny holes into verious spots around a cheap plastic camera to purposely create light leaks. I had the ideal that I could drill pin-holes all over the PN2011's body, cover the holes with small pieces of gaffers tape, then randomly uncover / recover different holes throughout the shooting of a roll of film. If it works I should get crazy light leaks. Perhaps nothing drilled directly behind the film's backplate but holes at odd angles and of different sizes everywhere else. Maybe even cover a few holes with gels for tiny pop's of colored flare, streaks, and ghosts.