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Does anyone know of someone in the GTA selling decent pinhole cameras?

Make your own

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrix_feet/2990855756/" title="Brickworks 8x10&quot; Pinhole X-Pro by Metrix X, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3016/2990855756_5ab013b3e5_b.jpg" width="1024" height="308" alt="Brickworks 8x10&quot; Pinhole X-Pro"></a>

1/4 of a shot from my homemade 8x10" foam core pinhole

http://www.vistek.ca/store/ProPhotoLightingComponents/106597/canon-camera-cover-rf3-body-cap.aspx

here are some instructions: http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article_pages/Canon_1ds_pinhole.html

you can make a zoom lens as well.

Digital pinhole is a good way to spot and create dust on your sensor back in 2005 I made one but pinhole is really the case of go big (at least mf) or go home.

http://rraz.ca/photo-blog/2005/08/canon ... amera.html

follow the link through for instructions.

Some good design calculators here

http://www.mrpinhole.com/

Pinhole is one of the things I want to get into again...I did it back when I was a kid with a cardboard kit that came in "World" magazine...that kit used the 126 cartridge film available at the time.

At a garage sale and one of the camera flea markets I picked up cardboard pinhole kits known as "Hole-On-Ex" which uses 35mm film, http://lawrencehallofscience.stores.yah ... cakit.html and plan to use the metal pinhole from that to make one for my digital, using the method in the next paragraph.



Assuming you made your pinhole "lens" with a body cap, the secret to keep the dust out of your camera is to simply glue in a UV filter into the back of the body cap! If you use rubber cement you can remove the UV filter to clean any dust out from between the UV and the pinhole, and then glue it back in again.

Just wanted to add that Lensbaby also has a pinhole solution, but you need to own one of the newer versions of the Lensbaby to use their adapter...won't work with my older Lensbaby so that solution is out for me.