The Albuquerque Box Camera, a camera & darkroom all inside one mammoth photography machine

The dawn of photography brought many wild camera concoctions, including the famed Afghan Box Camera. These chunky cubes were designed to contain not only a lens and holder for traditional image capture, but also tanks within for processing on-site. Ethan Moses of Cameradactyl returns to In An Instant with his IAI Artist Residency episode about his unique revival of this camera-type, the Albuquerque Box Camera.
The In An Instant Artist Residency brings photographers from around the world to the In An Instant channel, offering unique perspectives within the global film photography community. Thank you to Ethan for capping our final entry in the series with this awesome episode.
Find Ethan's work at www.cameradactyl.com
You can catch me on IG at / the.instantgram and contribute to the Patreon at / inaninstantchannel
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[@3Gee]

This video should have had an ASMR warning at the beginning. Ethan’s voice is like butter!

[@InAnInstant]

Agree, these dulcet tones lower my blood pressure to dangerous levels.

[@Exxcalibur186]

Flippin' love Afghan box cameras.

[@refard5]

yaaaaaaas need more cameradactyl!

[@aglassbrightly]

This is why we love Ethan.

[@sheelios]

this is the coolest

[@abelsilvan]

I wanted to smash that subscribe button when Jeremy showed up, but I had already done when I saw Joe. Ethan can you invent more like and subscribe buttons for this video? Thanks

[@InAnInstant]

If anyone can invent more subscribe buttons, it's our boys in the ABQ.

[@tim31415]

Very interesting reversal process. The citric acid and H2O2 are certainly more practical than sulfuric acid! But the original Afgan process that I've seen uses an internegative which is then photographed to make the positive, so there is no reversal step.

[@InAnInstant]

I personally love the internegative reversal concept, it's such a trip to see it in reality!

[@theclovercross]

oh totally forget about he having this in the works! just finished building my afghan box camera or instant box camera as this one was branded. well I can always take out the bottom, trade the tripod for stilts and convert it to this process.

[@pierrecrampagne6826]

J'aime particulièrement cette vidéo, elle est ce que j'attends de l'image instantanée, avec une certaine nostalgie du photomaton d'autrefois. Avec une certaine netteté. Avec les appareils P o l a r o i d plus petits autofocus, est-ce de l'argentique ou des colorants. autrefois on avait 25 i s o, et 10.000 i s o . Aujourd'hui, combien de i s o si on veut faire de l'ambiance avec un appareil savoir les paramètres et ce qu'il faut faire pour en tirer le meilleur parti de la photo, comme pour le classique argentique avec la pellicule.

[@floatprogress8797]

Very cool process! Does it need any additional bath/rinse after the final developer?

[@rafibenatar2519]

It’s like printing with enlarger in darkroom 👍🏻

[@InAnInstant]

It is, almost like using the enlarger as a camera itself! Such an amazing process.

[@balisong46]

The real magician

[@mf6598]

So fucking cool

[@bentbilliard]

The only downside is that the final image is a mirror image. Should be solvable though, maybe with a mirror? Both of those gentlemen, as well as Ben, true heroes of mine!