Pinhole camera design

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…

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My kids know what a pinhole camera is... AND how to develop it!!!! diagram of a pinhole camera with ink and watercolor

This is my latest pinhole camera creation, which I have been working on for the past month or so. It has been a while, but I decided that it was probably about time that I should consider building a pinhole camera completely from scratch; as apposed to modifying an existing camera (which I have already done a few times). The camera itself is not quite complete yet. I still need to paint the insides of the camera black, devise an actual "pinhole" for the camera, as well as drill out a…

DIY cardboard pinhole camera

Learn how to make a pinhole camera and developing solution to create black and white images.