On impulse I recently purchased a Holga. I was planning on doing this for some time; however, was not planning on buying a pinhole version. Put simply, a pinhole camera is the original camera obscura or 'dark chamber', which is nothing more than a small hole which lets light into a box in such a way that it projects an image onto a roll of film. No lenses or settings what so ever, the shutter is controled solely by your hand, not even a timer. A typical image in bright daylight exposes for around 7-9 seconds and requires an external shutter release in order to keep the camera still. In fact, this camera is nothing more than a plastic box and I even held it together with electrical tape to ensure no light leaks would occur.

The Holga takes both 6x12 and 6x9 images (that's measured in cm with the 6x12 taking an image roughly 120 degrees wide) with absolutely no distortion and no need to focus as the aperture is f/133! In order to calculate timings so far I have been using the very brief guidance on the back of the camera (Sunny 7-9 sec, overcast 10-12 sec, morning or dusk 13 sec and upward). Soon I'll actually get organised and calculate them more accurately including reciprocity failure, but I just had fun testing the thing this weekend.

So here's the result, without a view finder it's a bit difficult to compose, so I really need to get closer to some things. Live and learn.

Yes, I may have double exposed one of those images. Nice of you to notice.

Edit: It's been a week since I posted, since then I've experimented with some 35mm film in the pinhole. It took some modifications on the inside, and some non-practical loading and unloading techiniques (not possible in the wild) but the results are really great. Enjoy.