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Garbage Men Take Amazing Photos With Giant Dumpster Cameras

The Trashcam Project is a group of garbage collectors from Hamburg, Germany, who take stunning photographs using 110-litre dumpsters that have been transformed into pinhole cameras.

October 17, 2011
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Beer Can Freezes Time In Northern Heavens

Taken with a beer can that has been converted into a pinhole camera, this image compresses three months into one instant.

July 19, 2011
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Laser-Cut Camera Takes Film But Is Cutting-Edge In Other Ways

Considering this is a homemade camera knocked together with a few borrowed parts, it’s surprisingly high-tech, with the main selling point being that it was laser cut – and that you can make one yourself.

May 26, 2011
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Unattended Pinhole Camera: ‘It’s A Bomb!’

Part of Central Washington University was shut down for four hours after campus police stumbled across a homemade pinhole camera, believing it was a bomb. After calling in the army explosive team, they discovered it was some poor photographer’s project.

May 25, 2011
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Wooden Pinhole Camera Makes Art, Is Art

Sure, it looks like a speaker cabinet, or mysterious piece of nautical equipment, but what you’re looking at is actually a pinhole camera from Kurt Mottweiller Studios.

May 23, 2011
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The World’s Largest Photo Is Still The World’s Largest Photo

In an age where TV makers and the like are constantly outdoing one another with new “world’s largest” claims, it’s refreshing to discover that something so analogue – a pinhole camera’s photo – is still the world’s largest, five years on.

May 19, 2011
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How Do Polaroids Work?

It does seem like a particularly miraculous feat that a tiny sheet of photo paper can have a photo printed on it instantly. But how does it happen? And how do pinhole cameras work? Photojojo sketches the explanations. [Photojojo]

April 29, 2011
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Take Pinhole Photos With This $US40 Micro Four Thirds Lens

OK, the Pinwide might not be a micro four thirds lens so much as its a cap, but its end function is the same: it allows you to take pretty-looking, wide-angle shots of objects through a tiny aperture.

April 28, 2011
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Pinholo: The Pun-Tastic Pinhole Camera In A Pine-Nut

In a charming example of wordplay, Italian photography student Francesco Capponi took the Italian word “pinolo” (pine-nut) and turned it into Pinholo, the pine-nut pinhole camera. I could be wrong, but this could be the world’s smallest pinhole camera.

April 26, 2011
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Turn All Of Those Leftover Easter Eggs Into Pinhole Egg Cameras

Did you know that yesterday was both Easter and World Pinhole Photography Day? Is there a better way to celebrate both days than to make a pinhole camera out of an egg? Not for Francesco Capponi, who did that exact thing.

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