Experiment No.1 - Phase I

Digital Pinhole Camera

For my first experiment I chose to create a digital pin hole camera. The digital pin hole camera is made by putting a hole through a body cap and the attaching this ti the body of your digital camera and you can the create you images. As there is no lens attached to the camera body it means that you can't control focuser zoom. The only thing you have control on the camera is when you close the shutter and whether you use he flash or not. The measly amount of light a pinhole lets through makes it very hard to see through the viewfinder. On a bright, sunny day you can expect a good photograph by setting a one-second exposure at ISO100. Around dawn and sunset it may be hard to capture enough light in 30 seconds so you need to have a or sturdy surface to keep the camera steady and get the best quality photo. Since you can’t focus a pinhole, even the clearest image you create with one can never be described as crisp. Everything is equally in focus or even out of focus from right in front of the pinhole to the distant horizon. 

Here are a few example of a digital pinhole photos: