Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is only one week away! If you want to participate, make sure you’ve got a camera built or bought in time by April 30, 2006!
See pinholeday.org for more info on the event. If you’d like to convert an existing camera or build one from scratch, the f295 Pinhole Photography Forum is an excellent resource.
There’s a long list of events and workshops happening, check out the list to see if there’s one near you.
I am working on converting a Polaroid packfilm camera to pinhole today. The heavy lifting, ie removing and reconfiguring, work is done, all that remains is calibrating exposures.
Yeah! You go!
An easy way to determine the f/stop is to scan the pinhole at high resolution on a flatbed scanner, make a selection the size of the hole in your image editor of choice, and see how big it is in the Info palette.
f/stop = hole-to-film distance / hole diameter
(distance and diameter must be in the same units of measure)