Digital Pinhole

I don't know about you, but I had not tried shooting digital pinhole before. It's not something that really crossed my mind... I either want to shoot digital, or pinhole. Well, I recently decided to try it out.

I used these cats as my test subjects, but not in a laboratory kind of way of course

And a homemade pinhole cap (with filter glued on the front so dust would not get inside the lens mount and reach the sensor)

Shot straight from the camera using pinhole cap

Shot using pinhole cap AND a fisheye adapter screwed into the filter (that's glued on the cap)

I wasn't quite expecting either result. Instead of making the area of view wider with the fisheye adapter, it made it much smaller as if looking through a doors peep-hole.

The softness also threw me for a bit of a loop... aren't pin-hole images supposed to have a huge depth of field where everything is in focus? I did some research and it turns out this is what happens when the element of digital is introduced to pinhole photography, and diffraction is the culprit.

So if you didn't already know this, now you do. For more on the diffraction/pinhole/digital issue, refer here & here.


Images © Jenn A. Fletcher