Digital Pinhole Camera

Last night Alicia and I were watching “Waking Life” and drinking copious amounts of wine and I had an idea that I wasn’t sure would work or not. I wanted to attempt to use my D-SLR as a pinhole camera. I scoured around my bookshelves for a lenscap that I could poke a hole through.

I found one and started pushing my sewing needle through, it took about the duration of the movie to even make a budge because of course I picked a think plastic lens cap. Then just as we were making progress I found a thin plastic lens cap and poked a whole through in about 2 seconds.

I removed my cameras lens and taped this lens cap over the area, and set up exposure times etc to test out. I was surprised to find out it actually worked! Alicia and I spent the remainder of the night playing with camera. It was pretty awesome, sort of like discovering photography for the first time and dealing with all the trials and tribulations that go with it. I’d say it was a pretty awesome night.

And here was the outcome, 30 second exposure using self timer: