Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Pinhole Photography


Selfportraits. Iso 1600 30 sec. could have used lower ISO but wasnt able to figure out the long exposure settings.

" Productphoto" of my two new sticks for winter ! The board to the right is a rocker board, made for powder. Cant wait to take it out on a deep day !



The Pinhole lens


This is the stuff i used to make it
Made my own Pinhole lens the other day. its one of the oldest photo techniques,also known as Camera Obscura.you can buy film based Pinhole cameras, but its also possible to make your own for a digital. Cut out a piece of cardboard rougly the diameter of the lensmount. try to find the center and cut out a 1*1 cm hole. cut out a piece of soda can thats a bit bigger than1*1 and sand it down a bit to make it thinner. use a small needle to punch a hole in the soda can aluminium. the thinner the sharper the lens ! Tape the aluminium "optics" to the cardboard. Tape the lens to camera body ! put it in manual and expect long shutters ! mine seems to be about the same focal as a 35mm.

3 comments:

M.M.E. said...

Some nice first shots with the pinhole. I made a paper 35mm pinhole camera a few weeks back. Worked great! It's nice to find someone else who enjoys them.

Pål Rype said...

Yeah,although the pictures is a bit on the soft side i think it worked surprisingly well ! wasnt too accurate when i made it either. will try to take it outdoors and see how it performs. i also have visited the www.zeroimage.com page. they make Pinholes and the results from those cameras have a really great quality to them. sharp,but with a soft and "old fashioned" quality to them.

Unknown said...

Oh, it's the K2 Gyrator! I hope to see you ride that board this winter.