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A Pinhole Image Monthly

"Le voyage". Oslo, May 2013
Camera: Zero 2000 for 120 roll film, fl 25 mm, pinhole 0.18 mm, Ilford XP2 © 2013 Jon Grepstad
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Pinhole Photography – History, Images, Cameras, Formulas

Pinhole photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera.
    Pinhole cameras are small or large, improvised or designed with great care. Cameras have been made of sea shells; many have been made of oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers; at least one has been made of a discarded refrigerator. Cameras have been cast in plaster like a face mask, constructed from beautiful hardwoods, built of metal with bellows and a range of multiple pinholes. Station wagons have been used as pinhole cameras – and rooms in large buildings. Basically a pinhole camera is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other. [View article >>]

Designing and Building a Large Format Camera

My book Building a Large Format Camera can now be downloaded free of charge from my website. The book is an 85 page manual with instructions and plans for building a 4 x 5 inch monorail camera with friction focusing. The book has 30 step-by-step drawings, 23 sketches and 11 photographs, a wealth of references to relevant literature and numerous useful addresses in the US and Europe. Most drawings are to scale and may be scaled up for an 8 x 10 inch camera. [Go to page >>]

Camera builders

Building your own camera can be a very rewarding experience. Quite a few people have built their own large format camera, monorail or flatbed, simple or elaborate. I have collected a number of links to amateur camera builders. If you are considering building a camera, some of those links may help you getting started. You will also find some links to pages about restoring or modifying cameras. [Go to page >>]

Pinhole stamps

My personalised postage stamps with pinhole photos from Rome and Prague (The Tiber, The Forum, The Golden Well). The Prague pinhole photo has been run through the Photoshop fresco filter.

Stamps with pinhole photos from Norway: