make your own pinhole camera

Pinhole photography is as low-tech as you can get. But in the digital age, low-tech is making a comeback.

By letting light in through a tiny hole, a pinhole camera captures an image on a negative or photo paper without using a lens (or anything else fancy) during a long exposure. The result is a slightly distorted, fishbowl kind of image that is very, very cool.

And it’s so easy that you can make your own from things like coffee cans. We like this version made out of a matchbox and a couple of rolls of film from Matchboxpinhole.com (originally from DIYphotography.net).

Here are the full, step by step instructions.

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Photo credit: alspix