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advantage and disadvantage of pinhole camers

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No lens and all it's cost, weight, and limitations and affects on the image 
*Infinite depth of field. Everything from a in front of the camera to infinity is in focus 
*Never have to worry about focus 
*Get good at using a pinhole camera and you will be taking photos that are not what everyone is doing. 
*Many pinhole cameras use medium format and large format film, which can allow you to make gigantic prints. 
*Light and easy to transport, largest item needed being a tripod. 

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*No lens and loss of all the good it can do your image 
*Long exposure times needed. MUST use a tripod ALL THE TIME. You cannot shoot a pinhole camera hand held 
*You need an external light meter and conversion chart to determine exposure time. (Some people use the light meter in an SLR to determine base exposure, but an external, ambient meter is better). Must also consider film reciprocity failure in your exposure time calculation. 
*If there is movement of your subject, it will either be blurred or completely invisible in the image, (which can be a good or bad thing) 
*Cost of film, processing, scanning, shipping, printing.