Pinhole Body Cap
Well last year i saw some pictures a guy took with a home made pinhole adapter for his DSLR. The results were quite interesting, and thought it’d be fun to try out. All you really need is a body cap for your camera and a piece of aluminium foil. I didn’t have a spare one at the time so never bothered with it, but last year i bought one for about $1 when i was in Japan and thought it’d be good for this project. Last week i finally got around to making the pinhole body cap and had some fun testing it out.
Here are some pictures i took around my house the day i made the pinhole cap. It was raining outside so i couldn’t get any external shots which is what i originally wanted.
I didn’t apply any post processing to these shots, besides one that i stitched together.




*This one was made from two photos stitched together.
It was all a bit of trial and error, and conditions weren’t ideal, but i think the feel of them are quite interesting, and i look forward to trying the pinhole adapter outside.
Oh here’s a picture of my homemade pinhole body cap clearly crafted to the highest quality and standards….
All you do is drill a hole in the plastic body cap (can be any size you want really). Then you get some aluminium foil, put a tiny hole in it with a pin, and stick the aluminium foil to the body cap so the pinhole is as close to the middle as possible. That’s it!

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