Making a pinhole

Paca and I spent yesterday creating a pinhole to attach to the front of an SLR camera (in the morning) and taking lots of shots with it (in the afternoon). He would have been at work, but he'd pulled a muscle in his back at the weekend, and it was still hurting too much to sit down for very long. But filing a piece of tin can to the correct shape, superglueing it to an old lens mount and sealing it with putty seemed to be ok (with plenty of standing-up breaks, that is).

Of course, I'm now desperate to get the film developed. I've got no idea whether any of the shots will come out. We tried four or five different exposures each time, just to experiment, to try and work out the best way to use our new lens. (We both keep wanting to call it a 'pinhole lens', but of course technically it isn't, because the whole point of a pinhole camera is that you can take photographs without using a lens... but it's hard to know what else to call it!)

I still favour film photography over digital. Digital definitely has its advantages - like my being able to publish this lovely photograph of the pinhole attachment without developing anything - but film somehow feels more real. Maybe it's also because I understand the process a little better. It's amazing, almost magical, to think of the light reacting with the film inside the camera, creating an image, which can then be projected onto paper which again reacts with the light... wow! I'd like it even better if I had my own darkroom. I'd love to develop and print my own pictures. But so far neither space nor finance has allowed me to try!