Mod your DSLR camera’s body cap so that you can shoot digital pinhole photos, HDR, time lapse or even pinhole video!
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Really cool video. Tnx for sharing!. I was wondering why you just make a little hole in the bodycap directly but a big hole at first and then a smaller one in the aluminum. Can you explain?
Is this guy serieus??
All the people saying this just makes your $1K DSLR shitty are missing the point. In less than an hour, you can make a body cap into something that can take decent photos. It's really cool and fascinating. Try making your own lens in that time. Also, from a technical standpoint, a pinhole camera has properties that no lens has, like zero distortion and a near infinite depth of field.
I thought that was the pinhole camera at 1:18 and I was amazed lol
If you really wanna know this song of this video, here it is.
https://ia802304.us.archive.org/33/items/8bp033/8bp033-02-i-cactus-chartreuse-cactus.mp3
I would do this just for the fun of it. For the same reason I use my Holga. It's not a hipster thing; it's a photography thing. For the others, I assume you may have to make a settings change for some cameras so they can take a picture without a lens.
This destroies the sensor
I just love the shallow depth of field of my f20000 lens
Ok, so to make it work you have to make tiniest hole possible, just the tip of your thinnest needle. To take a portrait in clear sunny day I had to boost iso up to 12 800, with that i achieved 1/30 shutter speed. With person being in about 1-1.5 m distance from the "lens" his face was kinda sharp. So I would say its fun to play around with, if you dont have anything better to do, but forget about any practical use of this method 🙂
Anyone has any tips on actually making the photo look at least kind of sharp? Tried a few different ways to make it, its all bokeh like in this video. I mean, yea, its all style and all, call me oldschool, but I think image should be sharp at least in some part of it, otherwise whats the point.
You can pick up a Nokia and do the same…
dude…… dude!
you can get one lens for your dslr here: http://3n2n.fnd.to/pinholepro
I guess something's wrong here. What he did is making bigger hole for brighter exposure. But as same effect as a bigger aperture, actually it also makes the photo more blurry, especially for distant objects. He should've take pictures of close objects and portraits instead of wide ange landscape that needs smaller aperture.
Pinhole isn't crap. Just because he doing it wrong.
what is the point in turning your DSLR in a camera worse than your iPhone?
Man, this was a great film. Thank you for the time everybody. Great fun.. Exactly what i was looking for.. Fun! I'm at an end to what i can do now after summer holidays, i've exhausted all my photo options, this has taken my fancy.
Oh, JesusChrist!!! this is just one of the most fucking stupid things I´ve seen in my entire life! Shit!
Thanks for the video! Helping me through a school photo project!
why would u want to take shitty pictures?
the be fair, this is a lot easier, cheaper, and less time consuming that the oatmeal-container days… at the very least, you can immediately see that you have crappy photos and instead pop your 50/1.2 on the camera…
They are not shitty photos, it's a different style that some artist are actually using. And if someday you travel anywhere and you forgot your lenses, then your are not really intelligent, but your can take photos with this tip, or you can be no fun and grab your phone…
…Or just use maximum aperture and a ND filter?
Oh yay! Something I can appreciate while I save up for a lens!