SMH Online - How to convert your DSLR into a pinhole camera

[Geoff]

Thought this might be interesting to post here. Spoken and presented by Andrew Meares - chief photographer at the Sydney Morning Herald.

http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/2007/entertainment/pinholephoto/start.html

[Killakoala]

Interesting. Could be a subject for a future challenge.

[macka]

Saw this this monring and thought it was so cool. Pretty obvious I guess but it never occurred to me. I plan on giving it a go when I scrounge a spare body cap.

[gstark]

Good to see that the Herald is catching up with us.

This was discussed herein Nov 2005, but referred to even earlier here.

I believe that they're doing a story on phones that are not connected by wires to a wall socket in the next month or so.

Perhaps this year's equivalent event was the trigger for this article? If so, we're ahead of them again.

[sirhc55]

The sensor needs a clean

[adam]

I tried this before but I didn't have a spare body cap, so I just held the filt infront. Still worked, but I think it'll be easier with the body cap! And all the dust becomes apparent! like in his pics! hahah

[aloysius]

I have been wanting to have a play with this for ages. I even bought another body cap to do so...then promptly forgot about it. Will have a play one day no doubt.

edit: looks like i should pull my finger out and have a go by the 29th:

http://www.pinholeday.org/

[Reschsmooth]

I actually put a pin hole through my body cap (well, a bit of sheet metal glued to the body cap) on Sunday. I haven't tried it properly yet, and I need to modify it further to get sharper images, but, for massive depth of field and a bit of fun, it is great. And, yeah, it shows up ANY & ALL dust on your sensor in very sharp focus.

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[Yi-P]

I actually put a pin hole through my body cap (well, a bit of sheet metal glued to the body cap) on Sunday. I haven't tried it properly yet, and I need to modify it further to get sharper images, but, for massive depth of field and a bit of fun, it is great. And, yeah, it shows up ANY & ALL dust on your sensor in very sharp focus.

P

So a pinhole can turn itself into a 'dust lens'

[spaz]

I just followed his instructions and it works really well! Granted I need 30s exposures at ISO 1600. Once I choose some better subject matter I'll post them.