Pinhole Cameras and Photographs
by the Fall 2002 Photo/Digital Imaging Class
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The Photographic and Digital Imaging course offered at Hastings High School in the Fall of 2002 is in it's second year. In the  2001 class we used heavy-duty tinfoil pierced with push-pins. This year our pinholes were generously donated by Bill Christiansen of Minute Aperture Imaging in Maplewood, Wisconsin. He fabricated shims of stainless steel "drilled" with a laser. The holes were perfect, and gave us an effective aperture of approximately f300. The quality of this year's images are astounding.

Here are a few of this years cameras. We used black foam core this year (instead of white) so we didn't have to paint our cameras. Click on the small image to see a contact print made from the 4x5" film negative.