This is the very first image projection inside the camera (camper). I put up a large paper screen on the wall, and have made a small hole on the opposite wall. The image was captured with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 digital camera, 4 seconds exposure at f.4, iso 6400. Lens Panasonic 7-14mm. Digicam placed a little below the hole inside the pinhole camera.

The aperture opening of the pinhole camera is approx f:200, distance between hole and screen a little more than two meters. It seems to work out pretty well this far. Now I need to clean up a little, cover every small light leak, paint it black inside and make a more permanent image screen inside.

After some years with very low activity from my side with pinhole photography, the last year I have «awakened» and am now posting images at my flickr site (and they do of course appear in the pinhole gallery at this site) as soon as they get developed. Amongst the undeveloped films I found a box containing 10 negatives, that I don’t remember when I took. Exiting stuff. I will develop them very soon, maybe already tonight.

At the same time I am preparing a Pinhole workshop in Tromsø. The workshop will be held at Tromsø Fotoklubb’s (Tromsø Photographic Society) facilities during a weekend in the end of April next year.

I am also working on a really exciting project: converting a camper into a giant pinhole camera. I got this camper a week and a half ago, and have already got out all the stuff I need to get rid of.

On the second day of Christmas, 26th of December, a few members of  Tromsø Fotoklubb (Tromsø Photographic Society) met to do a little analogue photography. Unlucky me had gone to Tromsø, not bringing any film camera, not even a pinhole camera, so I had to borrow one.

This was the little fellow I borrowed from Bjørn Joachimsen, a fellow photographer and film enthusiast who lives in Tromsø.

I did not know the camera at all, and took a few pictures not knowing whether the shutter did fire at all. At last I did figure out how the thing worked (with good help from Bjørn). I have not finished the reel yet, so I am very curious to what is on the film, if anything at all.

The light was very low as it normally is this time of the year, so the exposures got very long. I did set the shutter to one second and shot with an aperture of 8 or 11, and still hope for the best.

You can see a few pictures from one of the participants at the gathering, at this flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tor-gunnar-lehne/sets/72157628591778899/

…therefore I am, I think…

Trond Kjetil Holst – photographer and media teacher
This is my gallery. You can also find some of my photographs at flickr. Have a nice time!