pinhole camera
noun1
Arts, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Photography A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.
- Many of today's photographers forget that a pinhole camera — essentially a small box with a hole in it — can be used to produce a quality photograph.1981 April 12, Bruce Habegger, “Pinhole cameras can give surprising results”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Aug 2011:
- There are never-published treasures like British entrepreneur William Turner's scenes of Shanghai life in the early 1900s — probably taken with a homemade pinhole camera.2010 May 3, Don Morrison, “The Capture of Shanghai”, in Time:
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- pin camera