Pinhole scope/camera – Tutorial

Materials used to make my Pinhole scope / camera

Make a circle on the dark card paper with a pinhole in the center. This circle is to be slightly bigger than the small cylinder.

And paste it on one side as shown above.

Do the same with a butter paper and long cylinder.

Stick the butter paper as shown above and your pinhole scope/camera is ready!!

Put the long cylinder, butter paper side inside the short cylinder.

Decorate your cylinders as you like!

Adjust the length of the long cylinder by sliding it in the small cylinder and focus it on a bright, far object. You will be able to see the world upside down.

This was the first camera invented.

If time permits, i will also post the the model where you can capture these images on the film!

Happy viewing!! :)

30 Comments »

  1. Anu said

    hey dis is super cooool .. :-)
    m waitin fr it to capture da images..
    u’re really creative.. keep it up !!!

  2. Suda said

    I used to make a TV by adding a lens to this idea :)
    Great….. :)

  3. Sakhi said

    @ Anu

    :) i wanted my daughter to know this concept and get more involved in science! :)

    @ Suda

    Wah wah, see we are all sooooo creative!! :) :D

  4. Scietech said

    Yes, you are a crafty mother indeed ;-) :-P :-D

    And you have gone back to your old theme!

  5. Sakhi said

    @ Sci

    :) :D LOL

    I never changed theme for this blog! :) :P

  6. Reema said

    wow!! this reminds me of a kaleidoscope. do u know how to make one? my dad had made one for us in our childhood.

  7. Anshul said

    Like above commenter, i also recalled Kaleidoscope …….I know how to make a kaleidoscope…..

  8. sakhi said

    @ Reems and Anshul

    Do tell me your method of making a kaleidoscope, I can try and put it here!! :)

  9. Hey Sakhi….never knew about this…. I am surprised…

    The camera reminded me of my childhood part 1.

    @ Reema & Anshul .the post reminded me Kaleidoscope too

    isn’t it strange??

  10. Anshul said

    @Sharad: Now, that isn’t strange, but something too common ;)

    @Sakhi: There are how-tos of making one on internet. :) .Check them. ;)

  11. Sakhi said

    @ Shard

    :D :) Its great to be around children… you can have you childhood back! :)

    @ Anshul

    I know that it is available on net :P i was asking if you have your own method!! :P :P

  12. @ Anshul

    ROFl… I know its common.. but i felt its strange that pin hole camera reminded us of Kaleidoscope. :lol:

  13. Anshul said

    Yes, I have my own method, Take 3 pieces of mirror with size of a ruler(measuring scale). Paste them together to form a tube like triangle with the mirror facing the inside. Cover one end of the tube with some translucent or transparent(glass/paper/plastic), put some decoratives from the other end like rubber bands, buttons, shit etc., and cover other side of the tube with glass. Cover entire lateral surface of the K-scope with some paper to make it look good.

    Kaleidoscope is ready, but it will only work good if you see in it while its pointing down. coz. I forgot to put something transparent in betn to hold the decoratives.

  14. Anshul said

    @Sharad: When strange things happen commonly, they are no longer strange….

    I understood what you meant,…was kidding :)

  15. Sakhi said

    @ Anshul

    yiou wnat to put “shit”?? :roll:

    Well, broken bangles pieces can be used to put inside they give wow effect!! :)

  16. Anshul said

    Yeah, Broken Bangles thats what I meant, since I was unable to recall it, I used shit instead of it. You know, let broken bangles be X, kind of.

    The same way X-rays were invented….If i would be in his place I would have let those rays be Shit. Shit-rays.

  17. how shitty thought it is… time to go to loo anshul??/ :lol:

  18. Sakhi said

    @ Anshul

    ha…ha…ha… :lol:

    @ Sharad

    :)

  19. Hey, I didn’t know you had a Craft blog. Looks very interesting. I am a craft lover since childhood. Used to make film projectors using cardboad and lens as a child. Cool stuff!

  20. Sakhi said

    That’s cool! Sure we can share some tips, but frankly i hardly get time to make what i desire. But i still try to do whatever is possible!! :)

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  22. Kumar said

    Hi Sakhi,
    This is indeed a very nice post. Got your link through Kanan’s blog. You seem to be very experimental with day to day objects and surroundings.
    Very nice keep it up.
    Kumar

  23. Sakhi said

    @ Kumar

    Thanks.. :) i try to juggle work, home, kid and my art! don’t want to lose this passion of mine but lately i hardly get time! :(

  24. Beth said

    Lovely stuff. Do you teach? You should. This would be fun for my class to do.

    Thanks for the ideas

    Sakhi: Thanks Beth. I am not a teacher in a real sense but i do try to teach the kids from the family as well as the neighbours too! :)

    And hey welcome to my blog. :)

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    That comment is spam, delete it.

  27. Suelen said

    Olá!!! Gostei bastante da sua máquina Pinhole!!! Podemos criar bastes modelos de câmera e ter mais efeito tbm legais!!!
    Parabéns

    • Sakhi said

      Sorry sweets, can’t understand this language!! :(

  28. jhon said

    oh its great!!!!!

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