Hasta La Gadget!

It is almost certain that today’s new iPods will gain a camera, bringing the iPhone 3GS’s best new feature to the plebeian masses. But what if you are stuck with the old model or worse – gasp – you foolishly bought an iPod Touch within the last few weeks? You can roll your own camera.

Forget about auto-focus, fixed-focus or size limits on emailed photos. With the iPod1 Pinhole camera, you don’t have to worry about any of these. You don’t even need an iPod — Flickr-er Wheehamx, who made this camera, used an iPod Touch box donated by his son.

The setup is simple, with a metal plate forming the pinhole and a lens cap and step-ring closing off the hole to form a “shutter”. A pair of internal wooden strips and screws let this camera take a roll of 120 film and Wheehamx even added a little transparent red plastic covered window to use as a frame counter.

How many megapixels does this camera have? None, technically, but the resolution is way higher than your average camera-phone, and the pinhole gives almost infinite depth of field for front-to-back sharpness. If you’re thinking about making one, do it quick before apple inevitably reduces the size of the packaging yet again and you’re forced to use – horror – 35mm film.

ipod1 pinhole camera [Flickr via iPhone Savior. Thanks, Seth!]

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