Digital Pinhole

A pinhole camera is an early form of image capture that photographers still experiment with today. I think they're super fun. You basically take a box or other dark object that can be sealed tightly, poke a hole in it with a thumbtack (pinhole), cover the hole with dark paper, put photo paper on the side opposite the hole, bring it into a well-lit area, remove the paper for several seconds (around 30), cover the hole, bring the paper to the darkroom, develop the paper, and get an upside-down and backwards negative image. To get the right image you put another piece of photographic paper underneath the one you just developed, stick it under the enlarger for a bit, and develop that. Super duper easy. Now digital pinhole may sound much more simple, but I find it more complicated. You completely remove the lens, find a dark piece of paper, poke a hole in the middle, tape it to the front of the camera, and take pictures that way. That part is simple besides the fact that I had no dark paper to use. Aluminum foil helped a bit. The hard part was getting images to even slightly focus. Where the camera will focus depends on the distance of the hole away from the image plane. That distance is pretty much found by guesswork when it comes to using a digital pinhole. I guessed wrong multiple times and soon gave up on focus altogether. Some of my images ended up being interesting despite the fact they are a tad bit blurry.