Using a pinhole camera

I started to experiment with a self made pinhole camera. I used a regular camera cap drilled a hole in it and covered that with tape. In that tape I made a small hole with a needle. I used a Nikon D750 with a flange of about 47mm. Let’s say the total with the cap will be 50mm. The needle was 0.6mm. That gives me a f-nr of 50/0.6=83.3. If that can be said.
Sitting on a terrace, camera on tripod. There’s no aperture so camera on M and find a suitable exposure time by making some test shots.
My first shots. It just proofed to me I can take pictures with that.


With a little edit in PL

I noticed a lot of dust on the sensor. The trick to make dust visible is to shoot a white surface with a small aperture. So I tried this too


: once with the pinhole and one with the 50mm f22.

I tried

I tried to get expose to the right but that took me to much time. But look how much more dust is visible on the pinhole image.

George

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Next thing we know, you’ll be asking for a DxO lens profile :joy: :joy: :joy: :heart_eyes: :kissing_heart:

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I was missing that already!

George

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@Joanna , download the 2 dust images and open them in PL. Zoom to 100% and switch between the images. See how much more dust is visible on the pinhole image. That can only be due to the calculated f-nr of 83.

If you zoom maximal till 1600 you can see something as an Airy disk. Airy disk - Wikipedia

George