He recently published plans for a great-looking 35mm pinhole camera over at DIY photography that we thought you might enjoy. [Costas] put together a set of simple hand-drawn plans for the camera ...

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Meet Videre, a DIY camera that assembles in 30 minutes. Kickstarting: A Pinhole Camera Made Of Cardboard What happens when you mix a pinhole camera with a vintage twin reflex, then craft the whole ...

Have you ever heard of solargraphy? The name tells you much of what you need to know, but the images created with a homemade pinhole camera and a piece of photographic film can be visually ...

Scientists used it to observe solar eclipses, just as children do today with pinhole cameras made from shoe boxes. To capture a projected image, innovators in the early 1800s began inserting ...

Today, one of the first things many photography students are taught is how to blackout a room to create a camera obscura — or (same principle) a pinhole camera. And that’s how Morell ...

The farther away the camera from the card, the bigger the projected picture, NASA says. If you don't have time to make a pinhole camera before the eclipse, there are other free and easy ways to ...

With folding, cutting, a bit of science and a small hole, Dvoracek is able to create a working film camera. “Pinhole photographers see every container as a camera,” he says. For Dvoracek ...