OK, you want to view the Sun or an eclipse, but you don’t have an approved solar filter for your telescope. Maybe you don’t even have a telescope. No problem! I’ll bet you have a cardboard box. That ...

Lenses – they're the heart of every photographer's toolkit, right? But what if you stripped them away completely? The art of capturing images without a lens has been enchanting photographers for ...

The old-fashioned camera obscura is a box with a pinhole in one side and a viewing screen on the other. When the box is pointed toward an object, an image of the object appears on the screen. The ...

The solar eclipse is a celestial phenomenon that is expected to draw tens of thousands of people to locations along the path of totality -- all with their eyes trained to the sky. But anyone eager to ...

If you’ve been searching for a pinhole camera to enjoy and then pass on to your children, you’re in luck. Industrial designer and carpenter Elvis Halilović has created a beautiful line of handmade ...

Researchers use laser light to form a tiny “optical pinhole” inside a nonlinear crystal, which also turns the infrared image into a visible image that a traditional silicon-based camera sensor can ...

In a show full of 100MP sensors, VR lenses and AI shenanigans, it was a breath of fresh air at CP+ 2026 to get my hands on the P-Sharan Ami-35 – a film camera made of paper card that only costs $18 / ...