Pinhole camera design

What is a pinhole camera?

While technology has gone beyond comprehension, in terms of digital improvements of sensor and camera dynamics, the basics of photography are still the same.

I started making pinhole cameras for the same reason I imagine many people do - because I could! They are deceptively simple objects - after all it’s just a box with a hole in it, right! Regardless, they are capable of producing beautifully complex images. In my early experiments I used what I could find around me - matchboxes, bits of ducting and even felted sheep’s wool. Alongside this, and armed with my trusty Ondu 135, I was learning how to produce the kind of images I wanted using…

Contrary to what Apple wants you to believe, there’s more to taking a cool-looking photo than choosing which Instagram filter to apply. Few photographers know that better than Nancy Breslin, a local artist nationally renowned for her contributions to the pinhole photography scene. What the heck is pinhole photography, you ask? It’s a simple method […]

An excerpt from "From pinhole to print". How a camera without a lens can be used to take pictures and how a pinhole camera works.

Pinhole cameras are easy to build, and great for viewing the solar eclipse.