I recently bought a pinhole lens for my Olympus. I know it is possible to make a pinhole lens fairly easily. But I have heard that, unless you are very precise when making the hole, the results can be disappointing. So I prefer to have someone else do the construction. I have a Holga Pinhole lens for my Canon. It's all plastic and the pinhole is a little large. I have never been that happy with the images it produces. When searching for a new one, I wanted something a little better. I found it thanks to a company called Thingyfy.
The Thingyfy Pinhole Pro is series of interchangeable pinholes ranging in size from 0.1mm to 0.8mm. It's made from aluminium and has a pleasing weight. The different sized holes are selected by turning a ring and engage with a very subtle click. It can also take a 58mm filter, which might be useful for very long exposures. Thingyfy do versions for all camera mounts and also have a single pinhole version and a multi-hole version with a zoom ring. Their website is US based, so I ordered from Photospecialist. It took about a week to arrive.
I tried it out for the first time while at Madingley Hall.
When testing the full range on the same scene, and aiming for the same exposure, the sharpest images seemed to be at 0.15mm. At 0.5mm or 0.8mm the images were very impressionistic. Not sure how often I will take photos at this end of the range, but the bigger pinholes were very handy for composing a shot.
0.1 mm, 5.0 seconds
0.15 mm, 2.0 seconds
0.20 mm, 1.3 seconds
0.25 mm, 1.0 second
0.30 mm, 0.6 seconds
0.35 mm, 0.5 seconds
0.5mm, 0.25 seconds
0.8 mm, 0.1 seconds
