To
quote from John Grepsteads's Pinhole site:
Pinhole
photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the
lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the
camera. Pinhole cameras are small or large, improvised or designed
with great care. Cameras have been made of sea shells; many have
been made of oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers; at
least one has been made of a discarded refrigerator. Cameras have
been cast in plaster like a face mask, constructed from beautiful
hardwoods, built of metal with bellows and a range of multiple
pinholes. Station wagons have been used as pinhole cameras – and
rooms in large buildings. Basically a pinhole camera is a box,
with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at
the other
Right:
A small inlet in Southern Brittany