2020 WPPD Poster and a bit about the event. Over the past eighteen years, I have looked forward to the last Sunday in April. Each year, WPPD – Worldwide Pinhole…

The use of a toy camera to make an image, is not to produce shallowness, but rather … The simplicity of a tool should not impair the vision. Photography and the simple camera.

Matchbox Pinhole Camera Project – In this post, we will load the film and assemble the component

This is the third of a number of posts that will be devoted to the construction and the use of such a camera.

This is the second of a number of posts that will be devoted to the construction and the use of such a camera.

Personally, I find the HOLE idea, (excuse the pun) absolutely amazing. Pinhole is magical in that it requires no sensor, no mechanical parts and no lens. While it is possible to use a pinhole in place of a lens on a digital camera to take pinhole images, a tiny hole in a simple box with a piece of light sensitive material inside is far more impressive.

These images are meant to be viewed using the cross-view stereo viewing method.

In the early seventies, there was an interest in the Diana as a serious camera by art photographers and by fine art photography instructors who saw the camera as a simple and inexpensive way to teach photography.