A perfect camera for shutterbugs, hipsters, analog-lovers, curious learners, and DIY enthusiasts, the Woodsum camera comes in 3 different retro colors to choose from! The end result is a pinhole camera that you can customize a lot with the included stickers or by coloring the raw cardboard yourself before assembly. This produced a much brighter picture and around 1750, many painters, like the Venetian Canaletto, used it to make sketches for their paintings. It uses no lenses (thanks to the pinhole construction) and works completely without batteries or electrical components.

You can also disconnect the battery completely and power the covert camera system via a USB cable or the mains power adaptor if you want to. I want it to be clear that building a pinhole camera relies on your abilities, available materials, and your desired outcome.Content contributor – become a part of the world’s biggest film and alternative photography community blog.

This kit contains everything you need for an SLR camera, except for the 35mm film, which fortunately is back in production, for example by Lomography. In the 16th century the camera obscura was greatly improved upon by the inclusion of an objective lens. In constructing it, you’ll begin to understand the intricate mechanics behind the analogue photos you shoot and have a ton of fun in the process.And if you want to go beyond assembling cameras from kits, you can try this pattern for a laser-cut acrylic camera, or 3D print one like the terraPin 2HT stereo pinhole camera.