A Quick Pinhole Experiment
While reading thinking about how photography started, pinhole cameras came to my mind and I thought how easy it would be to make one using a DSLR and some cardboard from a shipping box.
Exhibit A:
After a few shots I started wondering why we pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for lenses, cameras or iPhones just to use and other software to create images a black box with a hole in it could have taken. (Only half kidding.)
My photos are really bad pinhole shots but the (w)hole purpose of this little experiment was to see what a simple pushpin hole in some cardboard was able to do—and it was a success.
Canon EOS 60D, cardboard lens of unknown focal length and aperture, ISO 400, 5 seconds
Canon EOS 60D, cardboard lens of unknown focal length and aperture, ISO 400, 8 seconds
Canon EOS 60D, cardboard lens of unknown focal length and aperture, ISO 400, 8 seconds
May 9th, 2012 at 07:12
Hi,
Pinhole diameter and disfraction can be ajusted here: http://www.stanford.edu/~cpatton/phcalc3.htm or simple web calculator: http://www.stanford.edu/~cpatton/webphcalc.htm
;-)
Bruno.
May 9th, 2012 at 20:49
Thanks for the links! They’ll be useful for modding my spare body caps into pin hole “lenses”.