Pinhole Camera Night Exposure
Shutter speed of 4 seconds.
Pinhole camera night exposure. Zero image cameras can accept 35mm and 120 films even 4 5 sheet film. Because everything looks different at night you don t need to go somewhere exotic to get great pictures. Calculating exposures for your pinhole camera can be difficult. Pinhole camera aperture chart.
This is a list of different ways to determine exposure times for your pinhole cameras okay so you ve built a pinhole camera and put some photographic paper or film inside. Film speed iso 400 negative film camera type. Exposure settings for this shot. I usually go with the rule of thumb that says that is your camera has a focal length of 6 then your pinhole should be 5mm in diameter.
Night photography can be much more rewarding than photography during the day. Keep in mind that a tiny pinhole will induce diffraction that degrades. The lensless camera mfg. The slice of time and the range of events captured by classical photography is in comparison with that made by a pinhole camera awfully thin recording only a narrow section of our movement in space time.
Telephoto type of light bright sun normal scene 2 secs. Chart exposure values for a specified fstop. On the other hand you can pick up a precision made wooden pinhole. Digital and optical camera exposure times usually lie in fractions of a second while those made by me are of minutes hours days or months.
Also a pinhole has super depth of field. Film speed iso 100 negative film. Obviously during exposure the pinhole camera must not be moved otherwise the picture will be blurred. You ve pointed the camera at your subject.
Make a trial exposure and enlarge the hole if needed. Obviously that makes a very basic pinhole camera. Cameras made by zero image have specially cut pinholes for sharper images and accurate exposures. If the pinhole camera is light and cannot be fixed to a tripod it should be weighed down.
This is a rough measure but it gets you into the right area. Pinhole photography and camera design calculators pinhole camera exposure guide. The seat o the pants guide to pinhole exposures. Your finger is poised over the start button of your stopwatch.
Please note that the format 4x5 5x7 etc of the camera is irrelevant. First a little bit about the size of your pinhole relative to the size of your camera. Exposure times for pinhole photography. Ultra wide angle wide angle.
Co whose models we sell has provided us with the following table of apertures and f stops for their products. Cloudy day 6 secs.