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pinhole photography


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pinhole photography

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Refers to the practice of making photographs with a pinhole camera. Light-sensitive film or paper is exposed through a tiny, lensless aperture: the resulting images have very great depth of field, but lack critical sharpness.

Variations

sténopé

sténopéphotographie

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