How to make a pinhole camera =).

How to make your very own pinhole camera!

Equipment needed...

• Sandpaper
• Metal Ruler
• Whiteboard marker
• Cloth tape
• Scalpel 
• Paintbrush
• Black Acrylic Paint
• Black paper.
• A tin/Container/Shoe box that has a secure fitting lid.
• Photographic paper (Black and White)
• Needle

The first thing you'd need to do is to paint the inside of your chosen container and it's lid black using acrylic paint or lining it with black sugar paper in order to prevent any reflections inside the container.

Once the paint is dry and none of the original covering of the container can be seen, measure 5cm up from the base of your tin. Mark that point and draw a 1cm square around  that point. That point you drew around will make for your pinhole.

Then using your scalpel cut a square of thick aluminum foil and pierce your needle through it in a constant backwards and forwards twisting motion. Using the sand paper, sand down the back of the aluminum so that the hole is flat and then use the black marker to cover the back.

Now with all this done you can attach the foil to the 1cm square you cut into your container using the black cloth tape. Once fully secure create a 'lens cap' to cover the pinhole so that the photographic paper doesn't become exposed to light until necessary.

LIGHT TEST!

Now it's time to test the finished product. Take half a piece of photographic paper and place it so that the glossy side of the paper is facing the pinhole and secure the lid onto the container. Take it outside and remover the lens cap. After a few seconds replace the lens cap over the hole and take to he dark room. If the paper once developed comes out fully white the the container is light proof :D.