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Gold award: build your own pinhole camera
Pinhole cameras can be made very simply, and they take reasonable pictures. But it’s a little more complicated to make a pinhole camera that takes a good picture, has an automatic shutter, has a mechanism to wind on photographic film and looks like a real camera.
In this project, students investigate pinhole cameras and design and build their own. They investigate the effects of:
• focal length
• pinhole diameter
• number of pinholes
• image format
• flat or curved film plane
• type of light-sensitive material
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