The Dirkon is a paper camera kit that was first published in 1979 in the
Communist
Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...
Czechoslovakian magazine
ABC mladých techniků a přírodovědců ranslated as An ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists">An ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists">ranslated as An ABC of Young Technicians and Natural Scientists The pattern was created by Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolár, and Richard Vyškovský.
The name Dirkon is a play on words based on the combination of the parts of two words: Dirk- is the beginning of the Czech word ''dírka'' (pinhole), and ''-kon'' is the end of the name of the well-known Japanese camera,
Nikon
(, ; ) is a Japanese optics and photographic equipment manufacturer. Nikon's products include cameras, camera lenses, binoculars, microscopes, ophthalmic lenses, measurement instruments, rifle scopes, spotting scopes, and equipment related to S ...
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See also
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Pinhole camera
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture (the so-called ''Pinhole (optics), pinhole'')—effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects a ...
External links
Link to scans of the original kit
135 film cameras
Czechoslovakia
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