Duct Tape Pinhole Camera?

Yes, That’s right. A pinhole camera made entirely out of duct tape and the small metal aperture for the pinhole. Nothing else.

What did I  learn while spending two days on this project?  Duct tape is not the IDEAL material to make a camera, but it does work after a lot of tinkering! I kind of like the image that came out of it. The main problem I had was in the 90 degree heat the camera kept sagged during setup and the three minute exposure. After three trips up to Owen Conservation Park this is finally what I came up with.

You may be looking at the first image ever created with a duct tape camera!

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Attaching the duct tape camera to the tripod wasn’t something I thought about at the start of the project. I do have an idea for an improved “tripod head”. But that will have to wait till another day. Today rubber bands and more duck tape did the trick.

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A before and after. Take a roll of duck tape, a metal aperture and a piece of film and a day later you have a camera. In the background of the “after” photo is one of my first failed attempts at a round camera. Even though I rolled the first part of the tape on the tubing mould backwards I could never get the duct tape off the tube. Then I moved on to the square idea.

5 Comments

  1. Mies Van derRohe meets Red Green. Beauty from the extremes.

    Great round one Cameron.
    Paul

  2. The camera will probably work a lot better in winter… Very nice photo and I think you are bound to create beautiful images with it (not necessarily with this camera, though).

    Nazan

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