Meaning of pinhole camera | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

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“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.”

“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.”

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