Pinhole

self-made pinhole camera from a tea-can(thingy)



self-made pinhole and pictures taken with it


positive



negative


Who said you cant make cameras of anything?

The pinhole project was cool. Even thou I have been experimenting whit pinhole before. The magic is, that you take anything you'd like and turn it into a camera. (as long as it has some space inside it). You make sure nothing inside your camera gets light and it all black. You do a little hole in the middle and then cover it with silver paper, and then do an even smaller hole(usually with a needle). That small hole is your aperture. And then you put a piece of lightproof paper(usually just thick black paper) with some tape in front of it. So this will be your shutter. Make sure you can remove it easily and attach it easily. Inside your camera you put ether a black and white negative film (we did it with medium format, ISO 50) or photo paper you can develop yourself. If you do it on paper straight away, then first you get a negative image, and then later you turn it into positive(shown above)
The trickiest thing about pinhole is that you really need your own chemicals and darkroom to do it. sadly. But with some little help the first time you get the hang of it and it's loads of fun.

You can make cameras of anything really!!!!

Posted up some of my own stuff..