I have made and used a few pinhole cameras that used photo paper as “film” but I wanted to try m hand at using real, negative film.  Recently, someone gave me a 35mm film developing jar and so I decided now was the time to try my hand at negative film.  I have several old Canon 35mm SLR cameras which all take FD lenses so I decided to make a pinhole “lens” for them.  Read on…

I got into pinhole photography recently because I like the idea of building my own camera, taking photographs with that camera, and developing my own film and prints.  I was wandering the aisles at Ax-Man and came across some 1 quart metal cans.  They looked like an ideal shape, material, and price to be made into pinhole cameras so, I bought half a dozen.  It was quite easy to turn these cans into very usable pinhole cameras.  Read on…