Experimental pinhole video.

[franck]

New video I shot... Vonage voicemails in different languages, a wild girl filmed without a lens, thru a pinhole. Hope you like it:

http://www.vimeo.com/7417728

 

[jonE5]

a pinhole? Like you just had the camera cover piece cap on and drilled a hole in it to hit the sensor?

Weird. Wild, stuff.

 

[franck]

You take the lens off. Tape on a sheet of aluminum foil. And pierce a microscopic pinhole thru it.
The smaller the hole, the sharper the image.

 

[ethan cooper]

brilliant, spooky, odd.

great idea with the pinhole cam look, I'm giving this a try tomorrow.

 

[franck]

Tnx Ethan. Make sure your pinhole is tiny tiny tiny... You shouldn't even be able to see it.

 

[sinapps]

awesome

 

[j]

Heh.

I've seen these before but assumed that they were too slow for video.

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Cap-Pinhole...iewItemQQptZCamera_Lenses?hash=item5d23e088f4

I guess with these new HDSLRs that things have changed...

It's interesting how close the look resembles my first attempt at a DOF adapter.

 

[damonb]

This absolutely looks like 8mm film. What settings did you adjust? Have you tried this in low light?

 

[Nitemare]

Uh low light? I'm surprised how much light you get with a pinhole in broad day light! we're talking about f 168 here...

 

[iHartVideo]

What do you use to create such a small hole? Sounds like you need something smaller than a pin.

 

[j]

One of the ebay ones mentioned that it was laser drilled...

 

[franck]

Made it on the front page of vimeo! Super happy!
For the hole, just use a sharp pin, and barely tap the foil.
As far as look, all standard camera settings. I just did some color correction in FCP. Lots of saturation and red / yellow / blue mess around. I agree it spookily looks like 8mm. You get unexpected results out of everything you shoot on a pinhole, and you can't really tell what you're doing. I felt stupid when I was shooting it.