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Summary: See example of a pinhole camera photograph. Learn more about early forms of photography in this free camera collecting guide from a professional photographer.
Anthony Maddaloni is a professional photographer from Austin, Texas. A New York native, he moved to Austin 10 years ago after graduating from Purchase College in New York. He has...read more
"So, when I'm shooting with the Polaroid six-six-nine this is the size of my image. And, that's this is really what you get. There's no, there's no negative. This is it really. And, this is an image that I took with that very same camera and if you notice it's very it's almost monochrome. There's really, there's not a lot of color detail that comes out. And, this is probably this is one of the first test images I took just to see if it worked. And, it was just in the backyard of some trees. Not the most exciting image in the world. But, I just wanted to see if I could actually get an image using that camera. And, you can sort of see there's a little bit of netting on the side. It's a pinhole image. It's very soft. It doesn't, there's not a very sharp amount of focus anywhere with that image. One important thing that I did use though was a tripod. So, on the bottom of the Polaroid right there you can see there's a tripod mount. When I took my lens cap off and I made that image, this exposure was about thirty to forty seconds long. So, it would really be next to impossible for me to use it hand held. So, you really want to try to use a tripod when you're making a pinhole Polaroid camera."