After reading articles about professional photographers using pinhole cameras I decided to give it a try. Simple enough to get started, I got onto EBay and ordered a few body caps for my Canon 20D. Once they arrived, I drilled a 1/4 inch hole through the centre, put foil tape over the hole and poked a hole in it with a pin. I poked too big a hole in my first attempt and the pictures were unacceptably blurry. Second attempt is a little better but I might try a third time with a smaller pin.
Here it is, my home-made, body cap pinhole camera. Look closely at the center and you'll see the pin hole.
And here is a picture taken with this "lens". It's a self portrait, or at least the grey blur on the right is me.
I'm still experimenting as to when the pinhole "lens" will be the right tool to use but it is fun. The big downside is that every single speck of dust on my sensor show up and needs to be taken out in post-processing.
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