Over the past twenty years I’ve created a number of homemade pinhole (lensless) cameras. Some of the cameras I used were the SPAMera (which took 120 film), the MintyCam (a 35mm film camera made from an Altoids mint tin), a 6×7 and 6×12 ZeroImage wooden film camera, The MexiCanon, a rusted Mexican chili can that uses business card size paper negatives).
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![Color 35mm film photograph created with a homemade matchbox pinhole camera of the train depot in downtown San Diego California](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/matchbox-35mm-film-pinhole-camera-photography-lightleaks.jpg)
![Black and white 6x12 ZeroImage pinhole photograph of a young girls handing from the monkey bars at a playground](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/6x12-zeroimage-pinhole-lensless-vertical.jpg)
![Wooden Cigar Box Pinhole photograph of the Omni Hotel in San Diego](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cigar-box-paper-negative-pinhole-photograph-san-diego.jpg)
![Homemade DIY Arturo Fuentes photographic paper negative wooden cigar box pinhole camera](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cigar-box-pinhole-romeo-y-julieta.jpg)
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![Black and white pinhole photograph of Chris Keeney and Tracy M in the sculpture garden in Balboa Park San Diego California](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Balboa-Park-San-Diego-Cigar-Box-Pinhole-Photography.jpg)
![Black and white paper negative pinhole photograph of rocks and pinyon pine trees in Baja California Mexico](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Coffee-Can-Pinhole-Photograph-Baja-California-Mexico.jpg)
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![MexiCanon Pinhole Camera Paper Negative](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mexicanon-paper-negative-pinhole-camera-in-hand.jpg)
![MexiCanon Pinhole Camera Paper Negative](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mexicanon-pinhole-camera-bottom-in-hand.jpg)
![MexiCanon photographic paper negative pinhole camera by Chris Keeney](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mexicanon-pinhole-camera-alone-tripod-.jpg)
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![Black and white photographic paper negative pinhole photograph of palm trees](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/mexicanon-pinhole-photograph-of-palm-trees-in-desert-california.jpg)
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![Color ZeroImage photograph of my son standing on old rusty Truck](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/chris-keeney-pinhole-photography-randsburg-ca.jpg)
![](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/zeroimage-pinhole-photograph-palm-desert-1024x956.jpg)
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![PinHolga pinhole lensless photograph of Tracy M in downtown San Diego](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/san-diego-pinhole-photography-portrait-tracy-m-1024x1014.jpg)
![](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/altoids-mint-tin-pinhole-camera-mintycam-san-diego-1024x545.jpg)
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![](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pinholga-pinhole-photography-kauai-hawaii-1024x1024.jpg)
![Color 6x7 ZeroImage pinhole photograph of my son and daughter standing in a mountain stream in the Eastern Sierras in California](https://chriskeeney.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/zeroimage-6x9-pinhole-the-flow-of-life.jpg)
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