Tutorial compliments of "Make:" magazine.

Pinhole cameras have been a long-time favorite of adventuresome photographers. But forget the Quaker Oats carton and go wide with this roll-film, panorama design.

It uses standard 120mm roll film, which means you don't have to open the camera and reload after each exposure, and you don't need a darkroom to process the results -- just take the rolls to a photo lab. Also, it's built entirely from scratch, rather than hijacking the film-transport from an existing camera.

Figure 1. The top photo demonstrates that the limitless depth of field of a pinhole lets you move as close as you want to your subject, while leaving distant details sharp, making all kinds of playful juxtapositions possible. During the 9-minute exposure that produced the bottom photo, people got up and sat down, unaware that the strange object resting on my table was taking a photograph.

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