{"id":617,"date":"2015-03-08T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paksc.org\/pk\/?p=617"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T13:35:52","slug":"homemade-simple-pinhole-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksc.org\/pk\/diy-projects\/homemade-simple-pinhole-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Homemade Simple Pinhole and Lens Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homemade Simple Pinhole Lens Camera<\/h1>\n

Simple Pinhole camera is an interesting activity to understand the principle, construction and working of a modern Camera, you can use simple household things to make it and can observe its working as well.<\/p>\n

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Level: Elementary\/Secondary<\/h3>\n

Concept:<\/h3>\n

Both a pin-hole camera and a lens camera produce real image on the screen.<\/p>\n

Introduction:<\/h3>\n

A pinhole camera is the original of a lens camera. It consists of a pin-hole, a dark box and a screen. Instead of a pin-hole, a lens camera has a convex lens and it makes a brighter image on the screen than a pin-hole camera. Let\u2019s make a camera model which enables us to explain the principles of both types of camera. This camera model consists of two boxes, the outer box with a pin-hole or a convex lens and the inner box with a screen. If we use an empty juice box with a plastic opening tip as an inner box, we only have to make an outer box using cardboard.<\/p>\n

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Materials:<\/h3>\n

Empty juice box (9cm by 5.8cm, height: 19.5cm) Black cardboard (25cm by 40cm)<\/p>\n

You may paint white cardboard black. Convex lens (focal length: 10-15cm, diameter: 3- 4cm) Aluminum foil, translucent plastic bag, Cutter knife\/Scissors, Paper glue, Sello-tape, Vinyl tape<\/p>\n

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Fabrication:<\/h3>\n

1. Measure the sizes of the empty juice box. (length: l [cm], width: w[cm], height: h[cm])
\n2. Draw the sketch diagram for the outer box on the black cardboard as shown in Fig.4.
\nCut the black cardboard and make up the outer box using paper glue as shown in Fig.5.<\/p>\n

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3. Make a rectangular hole (4cm by 7cm) on the bottom end of the empty juice box. Cut the appropriate size of the translucent plastic bag and cover the rectangular hole with it. Then, fix it using sellotape as shown in Fig.6.<\/p>\n

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4. Make two attachments, one is for a pin-hole camera the other is for a lens camera as shown in Fig.7.<\/p>\n

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5. Attach the cardboard with a pinhole to the square hole of the outer box and observe the image of an object on the screen.<\/p>\n

6. Attach the cardboard with a convex lens to the square hole of the outer box, move the inner box to focus and observe the image of an object on the screen.<\/p>\n

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Simple Pinhole Camera Science<\/h1>\n

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Real image by a pin-hole camera:<\/h3>\n

When an object PQ is placed in front of a pin-hole camera, an upside-down image appears on the screen. A few rays leaving point P pass through the pin-hole and reach point p\u2019 on the screen. Most
\nof the rays leaving point P don\u2019t pass through the pin-hole because light travels in straight line. A few
\nrays leaving point Q pass through the pin-hole and reach point Q\u2019 on the screen. The same thing can
\nbe said of all points between P and Q. Thus the real image P\u2019Q\u2019 is formed. The image is smaller and
\ndimmer than the original object.<\/p>\n

Real image by lens camera:<\/h3>\n

When an object PQ is placed in front of a lens camera hundreds of focal distance away from a
\nconvex lens as shown in Fig.5(b), the convex lens forms a small inverted image on the film (screen)
\nlocated at the principal focus of the lens. All diverging rays leaving point P actually meet again at point P\u2019 after refraction in the convex lens. The rays leaving point Q meet again at point Q\u2019. The same thing can be said of all points between P and Q. Thus the real image P\u2019Q\u2019 is formed. The real
\nimage is brighter in case of lens camera than in case of pinhole camera, because the number of rays
\nwhich form the image is much larger in case of lens camera than in case of pin-hole camera.<\/p>\n

The relation between the object\u2019s distance from the lens a, the image\u2019s distance from the lens b and the focal distance f is shown in Fig.6. The ratio of the size of the image to the size of the object is called the magnification. In this case, its value m is equal to b\/a. In a disposable camera, a is usually at least one hundred times larger than f, and b is the same as f as shown in<\/p>\n

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Questions:<\/h3>\n

1. How can you measure the focal length f of the lens camera?
\n2. In case of lens camera, if an object comes nearer to the camera which direction should you move
\nthe screen?
\n3. What are the differences between a lens camera and a pinhole camera?<\/p>\n

Making simple pinhole camera Video<\/h3>\n