Project 2 Building a Pinhole Camera
Architecture

CS194-26 Project 2 Building a Pinhole Camera

Team

Yanhe Chen cs194-26-aes
Pinxiu Gong cs194-26-adu
Yunfan Song cs194-26-acu

Design

We used a white cardboard box to create a dark environment. We first cut a circular hole to place the camera lens, and a small square that will be covered by pieces of paper with pinholes of different diameters, 1mm, 2mm, and 5mm, respectively. Then cover the inside of the cardboard box with black tapes, except for the side opposite to the pinhole, which we leave white to display the image.

step 1 picture

box outside

step 2 picture

hole

Results

1mm
image

Landscape

1mm
image

Building

1mm
image

Building

5mm
image

Building

5mm
image

Landscape

5mm
image

Sky

2mm
image

Building

2mm
image

Building

Summary:
2mm works the best. Both the larger diameter, 5mm, and the smaller diameter, 2mm, result in a relatively more blurry image.