Has anybody ever tried pinholing a 35mm camera body cap?

Question

You know, to turn your 35mm camera into a pinhole camera.

Did it work? How did you do it? What size was the hole?

If it worked do you think that you could like, I dont know, take a picture with it, and um, like make like just one or two things color with it and the rest, um, like, I dont know.... whats the word... photo-grey? No thats not it. I mean ARTISTIC!! Yeah thats it.

Answer 1

You can also purchase pinhole caps for most cameras. These are high quality pinholes and will give you much better results than drilling your own. It's also a great website.

Products are here:
http://www.pinholeresource.com/agora/agora.cgi?cart_id=&xm=on&product=Cameras

Of course you have to weigh - free vs. $$

One interesting cap is the film base pinhole - it's sealed from dust so will work great for your digital camera.

Answer 2

Yes, I've done it.

I drilled a 1/2" hole in the center of the body cap. I then took a small piece of brass, made a bump in it with a nail, and filed off the bump until I had a nice pin hole. I then glued the brass to the inside of the body cap such that the pinhole was centered in the larger hole I had made.

The results were actually quite good, however truthfully pinhole photography just isn't my thing. In any case, though, I used it on a Canon A-1, whose meter has amazingly good low light sensitivity. I found that the A-1 could give proper exposures on overcast days just by leaving it on autoexposure.