The first durable and simple to use pinhole camera that can be passed on for generations!
Let me start by introducing myself; my name is Elvis Halilović and I am a passionate lensless photographer. For the last seven years, I’ve been photographing using pinhole cameras that I’ve made myself. Through the years, I’ve constructed and used extensively about 40 of them; the largest produced images measuring up to 3 x 4 metres while the smallest could fit inside a person’s mouth.
I’m also an industrial designer and a carpenter. In the past few years I’ve been actively busy with various projects that involved a lot of woodworking. One of my most recognisable projects finished so far is the Floating City, a floating platform intended for sustainable solutions research. With sustainability and quality in mind I’ve set my mind on smaller and more manageable projects. This is how I came to work on the Ondu Pinhole cameras.
In the course of time, I’ve come to realise there are no simple to use, good-looking, and most of all, affordable cameras out there. Using my knowledge of what happens when the light passes trough the pinhole sized aperture, I’ve been able to come up with a family of six wooden pinhole cameras. To suit various photographic needs, they come in 6 different dimensions and film sizes, from the most common Leica 135 format to the 4˝ x 5˝ film holder camera.