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Arts Activity 10

Pinhole Camera

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A pinhole camera is the most basic form of camera. Instead of a lens it uses a tiny hole or apeture to focus light and project the inverted image on to a screen.

Mark Titchner and Anna Barriball ran a pinhole camera workshop with the residents at Bluebell Lodge using cardboard boxes and magnifying glasses to help focus the light.

In this simplified version all you need to make your pinhole camera is a cereal box and packet, some tape and a pin.

You will need:

-Cereal box & packet

-Solid coloured tape

-Scissors or craft knife

-A pin or small nail

Cut a slot in the front of the cereal box

Cut out a section of cereal packet the same size as cut in the box

Put the piece of packet down through the slot - this will be your screen.

Tape the screen in place, making sure the whole slot is sealed.

The screen should sit in the box like this.

Tape up all cracks where light could otherwise get in.

Use a pin or nail to make a hole in the bottom of the box.

Your pinhole camera is ready to go. Look through the open end of the box from a dark space to a light space.

You should see an inverted image of the light source projected on to the screen!

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