London Grammar just released their new video - Wasting My Young Years. One of the most interesting things about this video is that it features several bullet time shots that are not only shot on film, but are shot on 625 pinhole cameras.
So, how do you shoot 625 pinholes simultaneously? See the video and BTS after the jump. Click to continue ›
We are big fans of creativity here on DIYP and just when we thought that pinhole camera making could not get more creative, photographer James Guerin proved us wrong with a Multi-Cell 8×10″ pinhole camera interview he did on The Phoblographer.
The camera is made from a blacked shoebox which is divided into 25 individual pinhole domains with cardboard dividers. Click to continue ›
So, if the exposure is right at f/8 and 1/250th of a second? What would the time value be at f/288?
While this is not a question you will need answered for your DSLR, it is something you would need to know if you got the new Ilford Harman Titan 8×10" Pinhole camera. Click to continue ›
One of the nice things about releasing a project to the world is the fact that it can tranform, and et enhanced by the community. Here is how humble Paul Eliasberg describes his project:
This tutorial is nothing more than showing you my way of putting an extra frame into a standard Dippold pinhole camera. There may be other ways, but this works for me. If you haven’t made a Dippold camera before, please do so first. You can find the template and instructions here. Click to continue ›
If you're somebody who likes to take film photographs, you know the satisfaction you get from a film photo that you just don't feel when you use digital. Just imagine seeing the first photo you get out of a camera you designed and built yourself!
The process of designing and building a camera may seem daunting, but with a little patience and the help of this guide and some further reading, you'll be able to do it. You can use this information to figure out what you want to build, gather some simple materials and tools, and build it!
I want it to be clear that building a pinhole camera relies on your abilities, available materials, and your desired outcome. As a result, this guide is less of a step-by-step and more of a lesson on how pinhole cameras work, the physics and math involved, and some practical knowledge I gained while researching and building my own cameras. Click to continue ›
Some things are not made for digital (yet). This beautiful wooden anamorphic pinhole camera by instructables user Matt Bechberger is probably one of them. If not for the curved film plane than for the lacquer finished wood.
This wonderful device takes 120 film and then spins it around a cylinder. It is housing a mechanism that keep tension on the film so it stays at a circular form around the lens pinhole. This lead to the creation of an anamorphic image. Click to continue ›
Film is not dead. Actually it is so much alive that they were still making cameras for film only two years ago. Well... pinhole cameras. but that only makes it cooler.
The Rubikon 2 is a paper-fold pinhole camera designed by Jaroslav Juřica and released in 2010 under a Creative Commons license. (Which means its free for personal use, as long as you attribute). It is based off the 1970's Dirkon camera. Click to continue ›
I thought I've seen it all with pinholes. From getting them in walnuts to making a run on three 35mm films. David O'Sullivan proved me wrong with his submission to our How I Took It. David created a 50MP pinhole camera by cleverly using a body cap. Definitely not how I've seen body cap/pinhole combos done before.
Like many people with a DSLR I have experimented on and off with the ubiquitous pinhole lens made out of a body cap and some aluminium cans. I have always been disappointed with the results as they end up just being blurry photographs and don’t have any of the magic a ‘real’ pinhole does. Real pinhole photographs are often very wide angle and have characteristic vignetting around the edges. This imparts a dreamy or other-worldly feeling to the image.
I set out to improve on the idea and build my own.
Steven Monteau has an impressive record as a pinhole camera builder. Last year we shared two pinhole tutorials that he made, one for The Battlefield Pinhole Camera and La Guillotine pinhole camera. Today, I wanna introduce you to Steven's third creation, THE JAW.
The unique thing about THE JAW, aside being a ridiculously cool homemade pinhole camera, is the fact that it uses masks to interfere with the pattern exposed on the film. (oh yea, it shoots on good ol' film).
The over-sized camera carries some other special features. It has an hidden space that carries spare masks, a tripod mount and a spectacular cable release controlled shutter made in the shape of a giant JAW. Click to continue ›
Tilted plane cameras can control perspective in the same way (more or less) that a tilt-shift lens can do.(well, it's actually just the tilt part, the shift is something else). Tilt-sift is pretty common for dSLRs, either for professional use (like architectural photography), or as a fun add on, like the Lensbaby Spark. Amazingly, it works for pinhole cameras too. And we are going to show you how. Click to continue ›
