The other night, the lovely Mrs. Sansbury and I modified the lens cover of our Canon Digital Rebel XT to convert the camera into a pinhole camera.

The process was pretty simple–I just drilled a hole in the exact center of the lens cover. I used a small bit, but in retrospect, I could have drilled any size hole, as I had to cover the hole I drilled with opaque tape and poke a smaller hole in order to get anything resembling an in-focus photo.

Here’s a sample of the shots we took, from my flickr account.

That’s the Mrs. holding a candle. As you can tell, framing the shot is a bit of a challenge when your viewfinder is solid black.