DIY & Pinhole Cameras

Reviews of pinhole, 3D printed and DIY build cameras – if you’re interested in pinhole, 3D printed and homemade cameras, this is where to find them. Pinhole cameras and even more so DIY cameras seem to be becoming increasingly popular. What links all these types of cameras together is that they allow people to experiment in ways more conventional cameras might not.

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Solargraphy Cans – Going Homemade after Learning with Solarcan – By Antoine Carolus

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When I became aware of the existence of the Solarcan™ (the cheap and easy yet effective famous solargraphy pinhole camera), I immediately ordered one and, lucky me, received it just several days before a solstice. My little house is facing the South almost perfectly, and I climbed on a tall and shaky ladder to attach the can to the downspout with duct tape, as high as my fear of breaking myself a leg could afford.

A Calculator for Pinhole Camera Design – by Sroyon

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Two main factors determine how a pinhole camera “sees” – that is, whether its angle of view is wide, normal or tele. The first is the sensor size (throughout this post I’ll use ‘sensor’ as a general term for any photosensitive surface, including film, paper or digital sensor). The second is the focal distance (the …

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Developing A Modular Pinhole Camera – By Nils Aksnes

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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 pinhole cameras. I began to understand that I wanted more flexibility to shape my camera to my ideas.

After a brief diversion into creating an underwater pinhole camera (that’s another story) I set to work designing a camera which could change and adapt to new ideas.

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Ligero69 – Chasing My Perfect Camera – By Mario M.

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The perfect camera, much like a camera bag, is elusive. We develop our tastes and re-shape our expectations while on this wallet-burning quest to find the one. But what do we really want?

Everyone is looking for something different. Me? Whatever it was, I wanted it to be as close as possible to the Mamiya Universal Press, except at a fraction of the size and weight.

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Olyversal 2:1 Frame Camera Project – By Alexander Seidler

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After a few years of shooting, and 2 or 3 hundred rolls of film I felt my experience was growing, and my GAS with it. I’d been shooting a lot of wide angle lenses, and wanted to shoot something a little longer. I tried a Yashica Electro with a 45mm Lens (a long lens for me) and although I had been confused about the field of view, it gave me a 3D pop I had not seen in my images so far. Especially in landscape shots.

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