Pinholio!

[Bitter Jeweler]

I've been playing around with digital pin hole photography. It's pretty hard to get interesting images. You kinda have to just aim in a general direction and shoot. Here are 3 of my favorites to date. I think they are fun.

 

[Big]

Why do they come out so blurry? I don't know much about pinhole photography so I am just wondering.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

Well, mostly because it's a pin hole in the camera body cap. The body cap is thick, so it causes a lot of "diffraction?" I need to experiment more, and roll out some superfine metal and put a laser hole in it, that should help. I saw a guy that did a zoom pin hole lens too. His quality was better than these.

 

[C-Towner]

For just a hole in the body cap, these are some great results!

I have heard great things about a laser cut hole in a thin piece of metal, and your shots have me much more interested in this style of photography than I was before!

I remembered reading an article about a six month exposure with a pinhole camera a while back, I think that would be a bit hard to do with a DSLR, but there are a lot of creative possibilities here, which is pretty cool.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I believe...the smaller the hole, the thinner the "lens surface", the sharper the image.

I have also seen neat stuff done creating other kinds of lenses made with the lens from a DVD player affixed to a hole in a body cap. There is so much to experiment with, and so little freakin' time!

 

[Big]

wow, pretty cool. Gives me some ideas for the 365...

 

[newb]

Those look pretty cool.

Are there any sites you would recomend to someone who wants to learn about this? Otherwise Ill just wonder down the list that Google spits out.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I pretty much googled. Didn't save any site in particular. It's all basically the same info.

 

[newb]

Alright, thanks.

Let the search begin...