Photography Basics

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09/06/2007 - Art Center College of Design by amayzun

09/06/2007 - Art Center College of Design by amayzun

This week, we begin our series on photography. We’re starting the series with the most basic camera, the pinhole camera.

A pinhole camera is a lightproof container with a hole on one side and a film plane on the other side. Together, the aperture, the shutter and the plane create a camera. Building a pinhole camera is a simple weekend project and instructions are readily available online. Kodak has directions on creating a pinhole camera on their website and so does Instructibles. The Instructibles directions are embedded below. To create the aperture, you can use this pinhole camera design calculator to get your proper dimensions.

The largest pinhole camera that we could find was created using an airplane hangar. Check out a photo of the finished photograph on Flickr.


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  • Another rock-solid show, guys! I learn something every time I listen. You're really building a great library of media fundamentals. Keep up the awesome work.
  • I agree with Gavin- Awesome Stuff! I am not even into photography, and I love this!
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