Saturday, April 27, 2013

Creating a Pinhole Camera with 25 Pinholes Using a Shoebox


This is a brief excerpt from thePhoBlographer




Pinhole cameras are fun! Most of the cameras are often made from the most quirky things. We found a spam can, a shoebox, and we recently saw that a beer can can create some really beautiful and artistic images. But we ran into the coolest thing recently on Believe in Film. James Guerin created a truly extraordinary pinhole camera with 25 pinholes. The effect is something similar to what Andy Warhol has done before with overlapping combined with Picasso’s cubism.

We had some time to geek out with him about it and talk about how one can use this creatively.


Phoblographer: How did you make the camera and how does it work?


James: I made the camera out of an 8×10″ shoe box and some sheets of card-board which I used to make the grid that sits inside the camera. It’s that grid which makes it different from a regular pinhole camera. My camera is basically 25 pinhole cameras using the same shutter.

The grid was 5 rows by 5 columns making 25 separate cells.

The 25 pinholes were made from cutting up a soda can and piercing it with a needle and then sanding to remove burrs. I made many more and …



By: Chris Gampat


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