pinhole

Wide angle pinhole camera

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

Photo from svofski on Flickr in the MAKE Flickr pool I made this from cardboard, old velvet jeans (for light-tight cover). The shutter is made from the back of an old 35mm camera. To start an exposure, you slide it down the plastic rails (barely visible). The pinhole itself is made in a foil shim. […]

Camera obscura in a tree

By Collin Cunningham

Collin Cunningham

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March 20th, 2008 0

From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member Dippold turned an old olive tree into a pinhole camera – I have used the cavity of the olive tree as “camera obscura” of the photocamera. It is equipped of a shutter. This shutter works with a method of carrucolas. The camera has an internal device that support […]