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Pinhole camera

I attended a fascinating workshop yesterday in Wausau. We each built a pinhole camera from recycled cardboard and shot a roll of black and white film (remember film?) with it! There is no view finder, just general guides to help you understand what will be in the frame (the one we built was a 90 degree wide angle). There is no lens, just a tiny (0.2 mm) hole. We cut out a little window in the back so we could see the film numbers go by (1, 2, 3, …, 12). Incredible to see the resulting images.

The pinhole camera I made, viewed from the back, with the film winders on top.
Film negatives drying after being developed.
I took a picture of this intersection while a car drove through. You have to look closely to see the car – just some ghostly horizontal lines. I left the shutter open for 2 seconds for all of the outside pictures. Wausau, Wisconsin.
Double exposure of a brick wall and the rear corner of a car.
Close up of a doorknob in our classroom. I left the shutter open for 37 seconds!

For more information, check out the website of our instructor, Nick Dvoracek. We each built a 30 mm, 120 “Populist”.

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