OK, you want to view the Sun or an eclipse, but you don’t have an approved solar filter for your telescope. Maybe you don’t even have a telescope. No problem! I’ll bet you have a cardboard box. That ...

Looking for a project to kill the winter months while you wait for a vaccination? Why not try making a pinhole attachment for your analogue or digital SLR? The pinhole camera is the simplest ...

Pinhole cameras – that use a pin hole rather than a lens – have been around since the beginning of photography and could be, to coin a popular phrase, a form of "vintage" innovation. A recent ...

With digital cameras in everything and film slowly disappearing from shelves, everyone loses an awesome way to learn about photography. Pinhole cameras allow anyone to build a camera from scratch and ...

I’m asking for a small commitment after last week’s vacation. Digital photography’s predictability makes us soft. So build a pinhole camera—it’s neither hard nor expensive, promise—and take a photo ...

Here’s something to show people who don’t realize the power of 3D printing. This pinhole camera has one moving part which reveals the pinhole, letting in light to expose the 4×5 film inside. It’s a ...

A lens-free system produces sharp mid-infrared images even in low light and over long distances, creating new opportunities ...

Nikon once said that "a photographer is only as good as the equipment he uses, and a good lens is essential to taking good pictures." Not strictly true of course, someone with a good eye can work ...

If you're interested in pinhole photography but you've been underwhelmed by some of the simple pinhole designs we've shared and you've seen around the net, the Battlefield Pinhole Camera is like the ...

Scientists have developed a lens-free mid-infrared camera using a modern twist on pinhole imaging. The system uses nonlinear crystals to convert infrared light into visible, allowing standard sensors ...