pinhole cameras

[mmcirvin]

Found via Reid Stott, here's a page about pinhole cameras, along with a gallery of lovely and haunting photos taken with them. I remember making one rather similar to the Dirkon that was printed on an insert in an issue of National Geographic World. It really worked, but I never got all that interested in photography until my parents gave me a Polaroid One-Step. It was something about the instant gratification.

Comments

[jecook]

That's cool. I downloaded the PDF for the dirkon. I'm going to try that when I get a spare roll of film or two.

Thanks for pointing that out.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It looks to me as if the coolest thing about homemade pinhole cameras (which is not the case with the Dirkon) is that since there is no focal plane as such, you can easily bend the film into non-flat shapes for analog super-wide-angle distorto-fun.

[mezdeathhead.livejournal.com]

i love the look of a black and white photo taken with a pinhole camera... if i had time+money, i'd take that up as a hobby again. by again, of course, i mean that i did it for about one month in eighth grade.

so pretty though.