Comments on: Digital Pinhole Camera Follow-up

By: 101 Hacks for Both the Amateur and Expert Photographer - Photography Colleges

101 Hacks for Both the Amateur and Expert Photographer - Photography Colleges — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:50:42 +0000

[...] Digital pinhole camera: See how this pinhole camera was created. [...]

By: Millenion

Millenion — Thu, 27 May 2010 00:16:31 +0000

This is great im going to make one for my 7D. thanks

By: Mr. Muskrat

Mr. Muskrat — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:22:08 +0000

@Anonymous,
That is called a camera obscura.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:45:52 +0000

Something I did years ago was to make a room into a pinhole camera. I sealed off the window with cardboard and made a hole for a piece of opaque plastic that had a small hole drilled into it. It was fascinating to watch the reversed clouds moving across the opposite wall.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:21:28 +0000

I thought of doing something like this but never got round to it. My idea was to have the pinhole project the image onto a piece of thin paper and have the camera behind the paper. Don't know how well it would work but could be interesting. I made a film pinhole camera instead.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:58:09 +0000

Very neat idea. I take it from seeing the projects design, that a simple point and shoot digital camera with a decent macro feature could also be used. And the result may be even more "pinholey" as the smaller sensor would accentuate dept of field and noise, achieving an effect similar to the shoebox pinhole camera

By: rob

rob — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:36:19 +0000

An easier, though not as fun and creative, way to make a digital pinhole is to simply make a very small diameter hole in the body cap of the camera. It is already light tight, and allows you a great deal of portability.

It works with any camera as well. I have done it with my Nikon DSLR, my old Nikormat, and my medium format caera.

For some old school fun though, nothing beats the old quaker oats pinhole camera with 35mm film (for panoramas) or 4x5 film.

By: LeggNet

LeggNet — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:54:00 +0000

“I wonder why you didn’t try it without the lens on the DSLR?”It wouldn’t have worked without the lens. The DSLR was focusing on the image being projected on the back of the inside of the box.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:04:00 +0000

I wonder why you didn’t try it without the lens on the DSLR?

By: Stephanie Wagner

Stephanie Wagner — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:25:00 +0000

This is very cool. The picture makes the street look like a scaled model! Thanks for sharing! BTW, came to your site from DIYPhotography.

By: LeggNet

LeggNet — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:57:00 +0000

"How exactly did you get the pinhole lens in place? How big was the hole that you put the lens into?

The pinhole lens was created with a piece of aluminum cut from a soda can. It was flattened out and then had a hole punched in it with a needle (held by pliers). The lens was attached over a hole cut in the box.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:40:00 +0000

Question.

How exactly did you get the pinhole lens in place? How big was the hole that you put the lens into?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:48:00 +0000

This is very cool Rich… great idea for a project to do with my 9 and 10 year olds.