jello. Some of u know that I want to convert my crap ass Yashica Electro 35 into a pinhole camera. I just got home, and upong looking over the camera, I realized that the lens is permanently attached to the camera, no way to take it off. Now, here's the thing, I want it off... It seems to be welded on sort of, can't really tell. Either welded or a really really tight glue job. I figure I could easily just take a hammer to it. The main thing is, I doesn't really matter how much damage the camera takes in the front, because I'll be making a pinhole attachment afterwards, probably a real hack job too, but so long as I can keep all light from coming through, it should work. The camera is not an slr, but a viewfinder, so there aren't any mirrors to damage on the inside. Basically, so long as the shutter stays intact on the inside, it should be fine right? I never use this camera, cuz its aperture priority, and I hate prioritis camera, much prefer fully manual. BUUUUT, it needs a battery or something replaced, because no matter what the setting, the shutter will stay open for as lon as I have the shutter relase pressed down. I figure this would be great for both long exposure and pinhole shots. Right now, I'm much more in the mood to do pinhole, cuz I can always borrow a Nikon fm-10 from concordia if I ever want to do "normal shots". Question being, do ya'll think any damage would result in hammering the the lens right off, damage to the shutter being the only thing I'm worried? Well, I prolly won't be waiting for answers, as I Will never use this camera otherwise if I can't make it a vaible pinhole solution. The main reason I wanna do this, is because me thinks being able to expose pinhole photography onto negatives and slides would be INSANELY cool! I really get all giddy at the thought of working with pinhole exposed negatives in a darkroom setting. Shooting colour and black and white negatives, infra-red film, and slide film with a pinhole camera sounds way too good an option to resist with this otherwise useless camera... me thinks I'm gonna go get the tool box now. Anyways, comments on my twisted endeavour are always welcome. puts cup of blueberries down and goes to the closet for the big ass hammer...