I have a Canon PowerShot SD 870 point and shoot camera. The pictures it takes are very good. I like it…except for one thing. The instruction manual is 241 pages…for a point and shoot camera. It seems like the better things get the more complicated they get. Photography should be more like Kodak’s old saying, [...]
The best way to learn how to use your digital camera is to learn how pinhole cameras work! Pinhole cameras get you to the basics of photography. The aperture (f/stop) is fixed. That takes away one variable of fancier digital cameras. You have to actually calculate (sometimes it even takes a pencil and paper) the [...]
Your old 35 mm camera, the one you haven’t used for a while, can be converted into a pinhole camera. And, it won’t hurt the camera at all. When you take off the lens from an SLR (or DSLR), you can put a body cap on in its place. If you have a body cap [...]
Here’s a simple picture…
…that was made with this equally simple pinhole camera.