Pinhole Photography

Hello,

 

Has anyone tried a Pinhole photography with an Canon EOS. If so, what has been your experience with

it?

 

Thanks for your time.

 

Miriam Agron

It is best done with sheet film.

 

Look up Pinhole Resourse for supplies

You might find these links useful:

 

http://www.camerahacker.com/EOS_Pin-Hole_Lens/index.shtml

 

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/Canon_1ds_pinhole.html

The body caps can work well on any body... home made or otherwise. For an Xpan I drilled a larger hole and taped one of the 'precision drilled' pinholes from http://www.pinholeresource.com/ although my tin cake pan aperture gives surprisingly sharp results. Your Canon should be able to meter a wide range of scenes and in many cases handheld or holding it against a tree or other surface will work for your longer exposures. Rock solid tripod holds aren't a requirement, take advantage of some motion blur effects with longer exposures. Are you using a digital or film Canon? There are a lot of digital cameras used with last years Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day event http://www.pinholeday.org/ Attached is an image made with the Xpan with a body cap and pinhole, a 2 second exposure, braced against a light pole. Good luck and have fun.<div></div>

35mm is too small a format for really effective pinhole images. The required degree of enlaregement means that the images are inevitably very fuzzy. It's much better done with medium or large format.

With a digital body, using a pinhole is an excellent way to map the dust on the sensor!

f/22 will also give you a perfect sensor dust map.

 

I do not know why anyone would shoot pinhole on a DSLR. You can do the same with a cheapie lens, stopping way down. The quality on the above posted is very poor. If that represents some of the best type of SLR pinhole work then what's the use?

In honor of the 'All Photo.net Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolutionary Photo Techniques' here is an image with a camera using a pinhole body cap, one of even higher quality than the first. 2 seconds, handheld. Fuji Acros.<div></div>

I firmly believe that I can garner some interesting images with a pinhole camera..........right now I'm messing around with a Nikon 7900 and with over 39 years worth of photography behind me I can't get a handle on this camera...........there's so much STUFF on the thing.........who needs it all?

 

At any rate, I don't plan to print large images with what I get from the pinhole..........5x7 at the most - black and white.