Pinhole Camera

Discover the magic of photography with this ingenious STEM project where students will make a simple Pinhole Camera that really works.

My kids know what a pinhole camera is... AND how to develop it!!!! diagram of a pinhole camera with ink and watercolor

Contrary to what Apple wants you to believe, there’s more to taking a cool-looking photo than choosing which Instagram filter to apply. Few photographers know that better than Nancy Breslin, a local artist nationally renowned for her contributions to the pinhole photography scene. What the heck is pinhole photography, you ask? It’s a simple method […]

Collapsible Origami Pinhole Camera: Last year I played around a bit with pinhole photography. A pinhole camera is the simplest form of a camera. It essentially consists of a box with a tiny hole (also called a camera obscura) , the tiny hole is often literally a pinhole, hence th…

I started making pinhole cameras for the same reason I imagine many people do - because I could! They are deceptively simple objects - after all it’s just a box with a hole in it, right! Regardless, they are capable of producing beautifully complex images. In my early experiments I used what I could find around me - matchboxes, bits of ducting and even felted sheep’s wool. Alongside this, and armed with my trusty Ondu 135, I was learning how to produce the kind of images I wanted using…

Heather Siple tells us how and why we should try out peephole photography and peephole lenses.

DIY cardboard pinhole camera

Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr) has a fun printable template for creating your own nifty-looking 35mm pinhole camera. All you need to do is print

Pringle tube pinhole camera