Digital Pinhole Camera
With the dawn of digital photography experimental photography has begun to dwindle. So how do you experiment with a digital camera in the manner you would have when film was still alive and kicking?
Well, one of my students gave us a tip. Digital pinhole cameras. How does that work?
Put a small hole in your lens cap and focus with manual focus.
You may even be able to increase the effect by cracking the lens turning your digital camera into something of a toy camera with an original thumb print.
any other tips out there? Please share!
Well, one of my students gave us a tip. Digital pinhole cameras. How does that work?
Put a small hole in your lens cap and focus with manual focus.
You may even be able to increase the effect by cracking the lens turning your digital camera into something of a toy camera with an original thumb print.
any other tips out there? Please share!
posted by Stinkbugphoto at
11:07 PM
4 Comments:
I would make a hole in the cover for the camera (the one you put on when there is no lens), not the lenscap. That way you can skip the focusing part..
As far as I rememember when I did a pinhole camera, focusig is not part of it :-)
In my experience the digital camera won't fire without a lens. Anyone know how to solve this problem. or am I mistaken?
I just tried it and my camera (an ancient EOS 10D) certainly did fire with the lens detached. Pointing the camera at light sources of varied intensities gave different histograms suggesting that the sensor was active. I haven't tried pinholing yet, but that should be no problem.
Ahhhh I tried my D300 out and it also fires without the lens. My D70s wouldn't so maybe they have fixed that. I can now also recommend taking an analogue lens turning it backwards holding it against the camera body and using it as a super micro lens.
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