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Pre retirement, I had use of a 12W laser...
The camera is laser cut 3mm MDF, laser cut 'pinhole' in overexposed film, 5" x 3 1/2" paper negative in a curved holder. Most of the dimensions were either driven by the paper size (half 5x7") or came from "Adventures with Pinhole and Home-Made Cameras" by John Evans.
Kits of these were assembled by Year 9 students for activity week, loaded and processed under dark room conditions. Contact printing was demonstrated, but to save time the (often wet) paper negatives were scanned with a flat bed scanner and inverted using Corel PhotoPaint - not exactly traditional photography but somehow not digital either.
I doubt that I'm answering any (unasked?) questions - but it was fun at the time and I would recommend trying pinhole to anyone with use of a darkroom...
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