Pinhole Category

Without Lenses, "a quarterly journal exploring the art and craft of lensless photography", has just launched with three interviews:

Spreading the Pinhole Love :: Behind the Scenes with Tom Persinger of f295
Catching Light :: Making Cameras with Artist Jo Babcock
Visiting with Craig J. Barber

Check it out at WithoutLenses.com.

NOTE: We have sent a copy of this to the WPPD team, and will be happy to include their response. Were it not for the time-sensitive nature of the material, we would have done so prior to publication.
I was psyched for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day this year. I packed up a bunch of film and […]

Today, Sunday, 29 April, 2007, is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day! Get out and shoot, then upload your best shot to the 2007 gallery!
There are heaps of workshops around the world that cover both camera building and shooting and processing, check the WPPD events page for something near you.
More info at pinholeday.org.
I’ll be heading out with […]

Experimental photographer and camera builder Chris Keeney (whom I recently had the pleasure of interviewing) is now offering custom, hand-made MintyCams, which are pinhole cameras made from Altoids mint tins.
Keeney writes:

For those of you that are interested in the mintycam, but aren’t sure you want to go to all the trouble of painting, cutting, etc., […]

I met California-based experimental photographer/camera builder Chris Keeney on Flickr. He’ll shoot with anything that crosses his path: pinholes, toy cameras, digital, a pair of glasses, a can of Spam… he seems willing to try literally anything at least once. We decided to interview each other via email, a first for both of us. The […]

Another killer from bricolage.108, the man who brought us the outstanding double-sided lens and pinhole bi-cam and DIY half-frame camera mods! This one’s a three-aperture, curved film plane pinhole camera, which is a homemade version of the Pinhole Blender.
Step-by-step instructions with plenty of illustrative photos here at bricolage.108’s blog. Nice work, again!
 

Cristal Blend by bricolage.108. […]

holgamods don’t quit! They’ve added the Sony Aplha/Minolta SLR mount to their existing range of pinhole body caps, which now includes Canon EOS, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Mamiya 645, and Kiev 60 & 88/Pentacon 6/Exakta 66. Check them out at holgamods!

Ross Orr’s sweet home-built 9×12, curved film plane pinhole camera is featured in the current issue (#9) of MAKE Magazine.
Don’t miss the annotated photo of the camera on Flickr!

holgamods have added the Mamiya 645 mount to their existing range of pinhole body caps, which now includes Canon EOS, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, and Kiev 60 & 88/Pentacon 6/Exakta 66. Check them out at holgamods!

Tom Persinger writes:

f295 is pleased to announce registration information for the The f295 Symposium on Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes on Friday 27 April 2007. The registration for the lectures and round-table discussion will be handled by Conference and Event Services at Carnegie Mellon University.
We’re offering an early bird, discounted registration rate of $100 […]