Curiosity Club Q+A with Kurt Mottweiler

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With the next Curiosity Club less than a week a way, we came up with a few queries for our speaker, Kurt Mottweiler, to get an insight in to his work. Kurt meticulously designs and builds traditional, film-based cameras that range from the simplest, lensless, wooden cameras to fully computer-controlled, rotating panoramic cameras.

Kurt will be speaking next Tuesday, April 19th at the Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland at 6PM.

You work in both wood and metal to create your P.90 Pinhole Cameras. Are there any tools you find indispensable in your work?

I work with a range of tools and equipment much of which would be familiar to a typical woodworker or machinist and some of it to a mad scientist. But similar to the craft of luthery in which I worked, there are a wide variety of special tools, machines and equipment involved in craft-based camera making. Perhaps my favorite is the Swiss-made, Aciera F3 compound milling machine. I’m also slowly building a small CNC machine. I’ll show images of a few others during the presentation.

Cameras have a chronological component in that they record a moment in time. Does that interest you and how does it affect your work?

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