Or how to make a modern, expensive camera work as though it were made in the early nineteenth century.
The one thing you need for this is a camera that can take pictures without a lens attached. It’s best to check this before you start mutilating parts of the camera.
Firstly I drilled a small hole through the body cap (that fits on the camera when a lens isn’t fitted).
I then put some electrical tape over the hole. I used a small pin to puncture a narrow hole through the tape.
To take pictures with it you’ll need to set the camera to manual focusing and manual exposure. For taking pictures of outdoor scenes I found I needed a shutter speed of between one and five seconds, so a support was necessary. Getting good pictures generally involved a lot of trial and even more error. Composing images will be very hard since at most you’ll get a very faint shadowy view of what you’re pointing the camera at. Due to the long exposure time you’ll need some form of support for the camera.
Here are a couple of the pictures that I got
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As you can see you get a very stylised affect.
This was a bit nostalgic for me since my first camera was a pinhole one. Well not so much a camera since you couldn’t take pictures with it, you just got an image of what it was pointing at.
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