How To Make A Pinhole Camera With A Cereal Box

How to Make Your Own Pinhole Camera Lens

A pinhole camera is essentially a box with a slice of photo-sensitive paper on the inside and a tiny hole on the other side of the box. Information technology's used past pointing the hole at a light source or reflected light, exposing the newspaper through the pinhole and so covering again. Simple. So, whats stopping united states from doing it with our digital cameras? Zilch, that's what, so get up off your bum and starting time creating something unlike, similar Blueish Mantle Films just did.

On their YouTube channel, they depict themselves every bit a traveling, video making, family unit of 5. They are based out of Maryland and they mail service some pretty ill content from their travels besides as having a video production company, called Bluish Pall Films. With this quick tutorial, though, they're post-obit the trend of nostalgia, while having some inexpensive fun with the tools that they already have, and the results are great.

The creator starts past cutting a piece of aluminum from a soda can and carefully puts a tiny hole in the center of information technology with a sewing needle. He so gets a spare trunk cap, drills a hole in its center, and with a blade, he refines the edges a bit. After he frames the pinhole on the aluminum with black tape, he then sticks information technology to the body cap and screws the whole affair into the camera body. Hey, presto! You got a digital pinhole camera. I particularly love the lo-fi video it produces. It might not exist as impressive that large format video camera that nosotros posted about, at the start of the month, but information technology's a hell of a lot easier.

[via Blue Mantle Films]

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Mike is a mural and commercial photographer from, Co. Kerry, Ireland. In his photographic work, Mike tries to avoid conveying his sense of existential dread, while at the same fourth dimension writing about his sense of existential dread. The terminal time he was in New York he was mugged, and he insists on telling that to every person he meets.