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Making Oatmeal Box Pinhole Cameras
written by Stewart Woodruff
This web site provides step-by-step directions for constructing a pinhole camera out of an oatmeal box and other common household items.  Each step is supplemented with photos to show exactly how to build the apparatus so that it will actually take pictures.  Also included are detailed procedures for shooting the photographs and developing them in an amateur darkroom.  

**NOTE:  If performing this activity with children, follow safety procedures for using the photo developing agent.  SEE THIS LINK for safety information on Kodak Dektol:  http://www2.itap.purdue.edu/msds/docs/9735.pdf
http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam.htm
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- Active Learning
Optics
- Geometrical Optics
= Pinhole
- Middle School
- High School
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© 2002 Stewart Lewis Woodruff, http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/cpyright.htm
Keywords:
camera, experiment, hands-on lab, photography, pinhole, pinhole camera, ray model, ray optics
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Metadata instance created May 27, 2009 by Caroline Hall
Record Updated:
March 6, 2013 by Caroline Hall
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January 16, 2008
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Woodruff, S. (2008, January 16). Making Oatmeal Box Pinhole Cameras. Retrieved May 1, 2025, from http://users.rcn.com/stewoody/makecam.htm
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