Sunday, 22 February 2009

My Canon EOS 300D as a Digital Pinhole Camera




New meets old when I turned my good ole' Canon EOS 300D into an old fashioned pinhole camera. Tried several different exposure times just to see how it would come out. Will try changing ISO settings for night photography soon. I'm having a bit of fun on this one. :D

I did it by boring a hole onto the body cap and placing a small sheet of aluminun foil onto the hole and securing it with some transparent tape on the inside. Then I lock the cap onto the Canon EOS 300D body and with a safety pin or needle, punch a hole onto the aluminum foil and voila! :D The 300D body still works, it's just that the AF controls are shot and I don't really intend to get it fixed anymore since it might cost like a new camera altogether. :)

7 comments:

  1. Yay, pinhole! :D My parents still have their old Nikon Film SLR but I doubt they'd let me do this =P

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  2. it won't harm the camera at all naman eh. just don't let dust in the body. parang medyo mahirap lang yata sa film, trial and error. ang advantage ng digital, instant. :D

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  3. hi dario. nagulat naman ako dito sa post mo. digital cam ginawang pinhole camera. di ko alam pwede pala yun. at mukhang ok naman kinalabasan.

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  4. I'm still experimenting with ISO settings and shutter speeds. Feeling ko putting the foil inside the cap gives a much too narrowfield of view so I'm planning tomake an extension drum para mas malayo yung pin-prick from the focal plane, hopefully that will give it a much wider field of view. :) *cross fingers*

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  5. wow!! galing..i'm guessing u got a lot of time and your hands and ur bored..OK to papa dars! :)

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  6. not a lot of time naman, just takes a couple minutes to set this up naman eh. and i'm always bored. i feel i need to go back to school and learn other stuff. i dunno. :D how are you kadah? :)

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  7. i miss our shoots. kelan ka balik?

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