Pinhole
While I was in Roanoke I bought a Sharan 35mm pinhole camera, which needs to be put together - that takes about two hours. I took some photos with it there, none of them were impressive.
Today I took it out again, loaded with some expired Fuji film. I even threw it in the air to see what would happen. Fun times, satisfied my creative side for today.
Oh yeah, there are a few more that I uploaded to filckr today as well.
that’s pretty cool, but what exactly is a pin hole?
I remember learning about “camera obscura” years ago…does this work like that, with no lens? Neat idea to build a cardboard camera that actually works.
Same concept Aunt Barbara, there is a tiny hole (the pinhole) that transfers the image to film. It takes a while to expose, the one above was around five seconds - done by scientifically opening shutter then counting “one mississippi two mississippi three mississippi etc”.
Wikipedia has a good article on pinhole cameras here.