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Thread: Pinhole Cameras
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06-21-2016, 09:38 AM #1
Pinhole Cameras
Has anyone here experimented with making and shooting with a pinhole camera? Seems like it would be a lot of fun! If you have let's see your camera designs and sample images.
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06-21-2016, 09:48 AM #2
A college bud and I made a pinhole camera back in the late 1970s. It worked. No design or images to share cuz that was long ago.
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06-21-2016, 11:28 AM #3
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06-21-2016, 11:35 AM #4Registered User
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Are you talking camera obscura style or Erin Andrews porn style pinholes?
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06-21-2016, 11:58 AM #5
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10-26-2016, 05:53 PM #6
Back in the day it was done with photo paper in an oatmeal container (a large cylinder) and it worked. A better version is a medium format camera made of wood with a brass plate with a pinhole in it. Cool looking camera that makes a nice image. Due to the crazy tiny aperture you will need a long exposure time. I do not recall the name of the camera but IIRC it was reasonably priced. One could probably put a pinhole in a bodycap too.
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12-05-2016, 10:25 PM #7
You can make a pinhole body cap and put it on a DSLR. I never tried it.
I did the photo paper in an oatmeal container thing back when I had a dark room. I remember using really thin fiber based paper and trying to make contact prints from it.
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12-15-2016, 02:32 PM #8
there are some pretty cheap ($10) pinhole caps on eBay these days. Depending on the pinhole diameter and the flange focal distance of your camera you may want to add a macro extension tube. Those are cheap on eBay now too.
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12-15-2016, 02:53 PM #9
Friend did a pinhole camera panorama of the night sky in Winthrop. He set it up on a stump in our field, and then moved it every 5? minutes to track the stars. Came out pretty cool. I'll get a pic when I'm there soon.
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12-15-2016, 04:21 PM #10
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12-15-2016, 04:27 PM #11
We made them in high school during photography option of art class one year.
Pretty cool.
Remember seeing a TV documentary a long time ago where a selection of world's great photographers from variety of fields were sent to capture just one pin hole camera image of a subject that wasn't their specialty... amazing results, fascinating.
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12-15-2016, 05:47 PM #12
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