Pinhole Polaroid Photography

Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.

Here’s 15-year-old Chip Mahoney with his nifty pinhole Polaroid camera. It takes about 20 seconds to make an exposure. He showed me a photo he took earlier in the day and the people are wispy ghost trails. Very beautiful.

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Bert Claes (@claesbert) says:

September 29th, 2012 at 11:50 am

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[…] blinking LED circuit with a photo resistor to control the rate of the blinking. Or 15-year-old Chip Mahoney, who made a cool pinhole Polaroid camera. One of the best features of the Maker movement is its […]