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Simon, why are you uploading an awful photo of a slide?

Allow me to explain. This wasn't taken with an old film camera. Nor was it taken with a cheap webcam. It's not even a crummy Instagram filter. This is the work of my DSLR… retrofitted with a pinhole lens.

A while ago I got into 3D printing and bought myself a DIY printer. There's a site where people share their 3D designs, and months ago one in particular caught my eye [link] that right there is a Canon EF mount compatible 3D printable pinhole lens. It's little more than a fancy circle of plastic with a tiny hole pricked in the middle. Compared to the multiple glass element, ultrasonic motor, auto stabilising magic lenses Canon produces, this one is almost nothing. Yet I see it as so much. This is a 3D file that was designed 2 years ago by a man in New York, it was then freely uploaded to the internet, where I downloaded it across the world in England, before printing it out in ABS plastic, so now I can hold it in my hand. I think that there is quite incredible.

Another reason I bothered to upload this is that I took it at my childhood park, so it brings back some memories for me. The old fashioned look of the photo I feel makes it look even more like a memory.

Finally, I like trying different photography genres, and this is a really intriguing one to work with. Moreover, I haven't edited this picture at all, which is pretty rare for me.

So there you have it, a blurry photo of a childhood memory, taken through a tiny hole, in a printed lens shared from across the world.

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Simon, why are you uploading an awful photo of a slide?

Allow me to explain. This wasn't taken with an old film camera. Nor was it taken with a cheap webcam. It's not even a crummy Instagram filter. This is the work of my DSLR… retrofitted with a pinhole lens.

A while ago I got into 3D printing and bought myself a DIY printer. There's a site where people share their 3D designs, and months ago one in particular caught my eye [link] that right there is a Canon EF mount compatible 3D printable pinhole lens. It's little more than a fancy circle of plastic with a tiny hole pricked in the middle. Compared to the multiple glass element, ultrasonic motor, auto stabilising magic lenses Canon produces, this one is almost nothing. Yet I see it as so much. This is a 3D file that was designed 2 years ago by a man in New York, it was then freely uploaded to the internet, where I downloaded it across the world in England, before printing it out in ABS plastic, so now I can hold it in my hand. I think that there is quite incredible.

Another reason I bothered to upload this is that I took it at my childhood park, so it brings back some memories for me. The old fashioned look of the photo I feel makes it look even more like a memory.

Finally, I like trying different photography genres, and this is a really intriguing one to work with. Moreover, I haven't edited this picture at all, which is pretty rare for me.

So there you have it, a blurry photo of a childhood memory, taken through a tiny hole, in a printed lens shared from across the world.