00453 Pinholarino

Pinholerooney:

For when sharp images just won't quite cut it.

You will need:

One DSLR
One body cap for above
One drill
One can Guinness
One roll black adhesive tape
One needle
One black sharpie

Method:
Drill hole in body cap
Cut piece of aluminium out of Guinness can - smaller than body cap
Pierce Guinness can with needle (use it as a tiny drill to make a very, very small hole)
Blacken camera side of Guinness can insert with sharpie
Tape to inside of body cap
Stick cap on camera body
Take pictures

(Serves 4)

00290 Pinhole results

The pinhole camera has a few teething problems that I'll try to iron out if I have the time and inclination. It still worked out to be an interesting project, mind. I'm pretty sure that the fact that I forgot to blacken the inside of the pinhole made all of the internal reflections which lead to the vertical lines that I had to fiddle with in Photoshop. Really good DOF as expected.

Here's the results:

00288 Pinhole-arama

Following the tutorial from the fantastic Matchbox Pinhole site, I've set about making this little pinhole camera from (you guessed it) a matchbox:

It's really weird to take pictures and not be able to see the results immediately, but rather like the KAP, it's kind of a nice feeling of anticipation. The other thing is that you tend to want to pick the subjects really carefully, seeing as you've only got 36 (ish) exposures.

Can't wait to see the results.