Pinhole photography

Have anyone here tried?

I am very much into it, I started using pinhole cameras for good after several months carrying a brick called Pentax 6x7 in my backpack, and walking all day in the Black Forest and towns near by Freiburg. So one day I though that pinhole cameras may be the perfect camera for landscape, because they are super light (it is just an empty box) so I can walk all day feeling I am carrying a empty bag. And it also allow us to photograph larger format with smaller cameras. My 4x5 large format pinhole camera has the same size the middle format Pentax 6x7, and my 6x6 middle format pinhole camera is smaller than my 35mm film and digital cameras. I can carry it in my jacket pocket.

I will show some examples of what I do with such cameras:

6x6 wide angle pinhole camera:


6x17 ultra wide panoramic pinhole camera:


4x5 large format pinhole camera:


6x9 middle format pinhole camera:

Never even heard of a pinhole cam until you told me.

Soopairik said:

Never even heard of a pinhole cam until you told me.

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Really??

Its is kind of fun. A rustic way to do photography.

I once fitted a pinhole to a Speed Graphic body. You used to be able to buy laser drilled pinholes.

I remember doing this in elementary school when I was part of the photography club. Never thought of it as something you do more than as an experiment. Cool thanx for sharing

it's just me said:

I once fitted a pinhole to a Speed Graphic body. You used to be able to buy laser drilled pinholes.

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You can buy it from some pinhole camera manufacturers like Reality So Subtle and Zero Image.

Quag said:

I remember doing this in elementary school when I was part of the photography club. Never thought of it as something you do more than as an experiment. Cool thanx for sharing

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It is actually getting pretty popular among analog photographers.

C R O I X said:

You can buy it from some pinhole camera manufacturers like Reality So Subtle and Zero Image.



It is actually getting pretty popular among analog photographers.

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There is an outfit called Pinhole Resources that actually sells the cameras, ready to go, but they are stupid expensive. I'm going to check out the places you mentioned. I had a book that I lent out and never got back, it had examples of pinhole photographs that looked like lens photographs. Now I have to find my developing stuff.

C R O I X said:

You can buy it from some pinhole camera manufacturers like Reality So Subtle and Zero Image.



It is actually getting pretty popular among analog photographers.

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Those zero image cameras seem like a good deal but they don't do you any favors on the shipping.

it's just me said:

Those zero image cameras seem like a good deal but they don't do you any favors on the shipping.

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I like the large format serie from Zero Image. But talking about middle format I actually prefer the curved plan of RealitySoSubtle panoramic cameras and the double pinhole which helps with nicer results. But both brands are very good in general.

I have two cameras from RealitySoSubtle but no camera from Zero Image because I could not afford at the time. I got my large format pinhole camera from Ilford which was more affordable and also makes very good pinhole cameras.

But I also made my on cameras before buying ready made pinhole cameras: