This laser cut pinhole camera affectionately dubbed the hex is a remodeled version of a camera obscura.
Laser cut pinhole.
I ve aways liked playing around with pinhole photography and its unique properties.
Once you have a pinhole created you can determine the distance the film needs to be placed at to get a clear image.
With the threshold of 10 4 w mm2 cw 10 6 µm it seems like i am on a safe side with 25 and 50 um pinholes.
If you are interested in photography and have access to a laser cutter making a pinhole camera is an incredibly fun activity.
Typical applications include leak detection aerosol studies laser aperturing holography fiber optics guides spatial filtering and research.
The process of making the camera teaches you a lot about the principles of photography and allows you to get some really a.
The latin name means dark chamber as the earliest versions consisted of small darkened rooms with light admitted through only a single tiny hole.
Our laser drilled apertures will produce high quality diffraction patterns.
Pinhole cameras were some of the first cameras ever invented by using a small hole to refract light onto light sensitive photo paper.
Learn how to create your own pinhole camera.
How to laser cut a pinhole camera.
Follow the steps below to create your own one of a kind camera you.
Anyway its fun to play around with the unlimited dof of a pinhole and the absence of distortion.
If you are looking for a quick and cost effective way to get small holes drilled in almost any substrate you have come to the right place.
In fact i developed and marketed the first laser cut pinhole accessories in the early 80s distribution and advertising costs killed me in those pre internet days.
I want to buy a high power precision pinhole for spatial filter to convert square to gaussian beam profile for 650 nm 1 w cw laser.
Stainless steel 3 8 9 5mm dia high quality aperture centered to 0 002 50 micron.
Making a pinhole camera with a laser cutter.
Potomac photonics is passionate about microholes.
Focal length pinhole diameter 0 03679 2 units are in mm.
Determining the focal length based on the pinhole size.
Lenox laser apertures and pinholes may be used for spatial filters gas liquid separators molecular beam masks particle counters pinhole cameras and many other optical or mechanical purposes.
