Cameras  

Although pinhole cameras have been made for over 150 years, using all sorts of materials, our cameras are modern and made of hardwood and brass with laser-cut pinholes:

      Bob Rigby 5x4 (f246) made in England

     Zero Image 6x9 (f246) and 6X6  (f138) from Hong Kong

     A hardwood 5x4 (f200) made in Cumbria
                                                           
                                                         
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Film
Ilford Delta 100 and FP4plus for sunny conditions, Delta 400 and Kodak Tri-X 320 on cloudy days and Delta 3200 for some of the interior shots.
We have also used Fuji Velvia 50 and Kodak E100 VS for colour transparencies.

Exposure
Exposing film through a pinhole means that the only controls available are the speed of the film and the time that the pinhole is open for. In sunny conditions exposures can be as little as 5 seconds but in subdued light can be several hours.

As the cameras do not have built-in exposure meters the use of a hand-held meter is essential to assess exposure times which then have to be adjusted for the reciprocity failure rate of the film.  

As relative novices to pinhole photography, we have been much assisted and inspired by Eric Renner’s book, “Pinhole Photography - Rediscovering a historic technique”, which we would recommend as further reading.