My Canon T1i with DIY pinhole lens
I’ve written several times before about wanting to try my hand at both traditional pinhole photography, as well as digital, and this past weekend I came across probably the easiest and cheapest method of doing digital pinhole photography that you’ll probably ever find. The method I used comes from Photocritic, and although I didn’t follow their instructions exactly, I’m completely ecstatic with my results, but that could just be because this was the first time that I’ve ever done any sort of pinhole photography at all.
The items I used to create my DIY digital pinhole lens were:
- Camera Body Cap
- Drill
- Sandpaper
- Tea light
- Scissors
- Sewing straight pin
- Packing Tape
Each of these items I had lying around the house. Since Photocritic does such a great job of explaining how to create the lens, I won’t get into those details myself here, although I’ve done so on my Flickr page. The beauty of this project is how quickly you can go from creating the lens to shooting photos with it, and of course, the fact that if you’ve already got this stuff handy like I did, you don’t have to spend one dime to do it.
Check out some of my results after the jump.
