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If you find that it’s a bit bulky, my SnapShot is lighter (around 600g without lens) and offers both standard and technical (15mm rise/fall/shift) lens cones with a full International/Graflok standard spring back.

I’ve just sanded back/sprayed the rear door in satin black to tidy up the Edixa Pano. After decades of use it was looking a bit tatty; Once the paint dried, I cutout the new skin I’ve drawn up from a thin adhesive leather and trimmed up the camera. Last few jobs are respraying the film...

Cheers, I’d assumed the OP meant the integrated viewfinder diopter rather than a screw on filter.

A diopter is normally a corrective lens to go over the viewfinder for if you normally wear glasses, but take them off to use the camera. The rangefinder is the focus method where you align the two images until your subject is correctly aligned.

The Pin12 is packed, labelled and ready to ship. Thanks again for your time, will be good to see what you think of it.

Great, thanks for that. It’s F/125 aperture and there are guidelines for the width of each format (6x6, 6x9 and 6x12) on the top plate. I’ve always used a Pinhole metering app on my phone to calculate the shutter speed but you can also use this quick table so you can meter for a ‘traditional’...

I’ve got an updated top plate on the Pin12 now, with integrated slots to secure the internal frame dividers so they don’t get lost when you’re shooting the full 6x12 format; I haven’t had chance to put a roll through this updated design yet, and probably won’t get chance for another few...

I finished the updated cone for my Schneider 47/5.6 today so I’ve got two options for the camera. The 47mm setup is much lighter and more compact, whereas the Press version is more flexible in terms of different focal lengths. I still need to finish the new skin and tweak the rear door...

On another note, I’ve currently got about a dozen cameras waiting to go out of the workshop because I don’t have any ground glass for them, A package of new glass was shipped to me on the 2nd July from Eastern Europe then sat in Estonian Customs from the 3rd July until it was apparently found...

I’ve just realised that I didn’t come back to update the results of the test roll….they weren’t great I discovered after developing the roll of overexposed/low contrast images that the outer disk that the brass pinhole plate is fitted to is basically transparent plastic…not ideal! I’ve...

I finished the roll of Fomopan 100 in the Pin12 at half time of the Norway/Brazil earlier. I’ve shot a mix of central 0.2mm and upper 0.4mm pinholes, with and without the yellow filter, so it will be interesting to see the results later this week once I develop the film.

Thanks, and yes, standard 1/4” on the base; (That was an early front plate design with Cokin P filter mount).

Ready to go now for the weekend. Fingers’ crossed :0)

I’ve got a 49mm yellow filter coming tomorrow and have loaded a roll of Fomapan 100 to test the Pin12. Annoyingly, I’ve only got one 0.2mm pinhole disk here so I’ve got that in the centre position and a pair of 0.4mm pinhole disk holes in the upper/lower positions. The 0.4mm pinhole gives an...

Thanks for asking about this, it’s made me put some more time into the design and I’ve now figured out (at about 1am this morning!) a much neater way to mount a standard 49mm filter than the original Cokin P design. I was trying to design a compact mounting setup that didn’t need magnets/bulky...