Photography company Fotodiox makes a wide range of photography products and accessories, including lens adapters, lighting equipment, filter systems and more. The company also has a lively YouTube channel featuring product videos, tips and tricks and fun DIY projects. One such DIY project includes making a telephoto pinhole lens using a Pringles can.

Before diving into the newest pinhole lens video, Sean from Fotodiox previously fabricated a pinhole lens DIY video. In that video, he turned a regular camera body cap into a broad-angle pinhole lens by drilling a pigsty in the cap and taping a piece of metallic with a small pinhole to the cap. Information technology was a wide-bending pinhole lens because of the short distance from the pinhole to the image sensor. By instead using a long tube, such equally a Pringles can, and attaching information technology to your camera, you greatly increase the distance from the focal plane to the pinhole, thereby making a lens with a longer focal length.

For this build, you need a 'Grab n' Become' size Pringles tin, which is shorter than a regular Pringles can, a soda tin, sewing needles, gaffer tape or blackness duct tape, a box cutter, scissors, so two rings. In this example, Sean uses a Fotodiox 67mm Sony E macro reverse ring and a 77-67mm step down ring. To see each step in particular, picket the video below.

Sean from Fotodiox has an E-mountain camera, so those are the adapter rings he used. Nevertheless, yous can practice the project for other cameras provided you have the right adapter rings, including a 77-67mm adapter band. With the Grab n' Go Pringles can, the pinhole lens is equivalent to about a 140mm lens on a full-frame camera.

There are drawbacks to the setup, says Sean. The epitome volition be blurry. Only and so again, it'due south a pinhole lens. You don't brand your own pinhole lens for spectacular paradigm quality. You volition also need to shoot at a very high ISO or use long exposures. With his Sony A7S Two, Sean could fifty-fifty record video by using high ISO during the day. 'Is it good looking video?' asks Sean. 'No. Information technology's terrible, simply information technology's definitely a unique look, and I think it'due south pretty absurd that I'k shooting through a piece of a soda tin can and a Pringles container.'

If you desire some more than fun DIY projects to try over the holidays, caput over to the Fotodiox YouTube channel. We're also sharing some of their latest holiday-themed videos below, including a Christmas cats photoshoot and a video about edifice your own DIY ornament reflection rig.