pinhole camera
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A simple lensless device for producing a photographic image, consisting of an enclosed box with film or some other flat photosensitive surface on one interior side and a tiny hole in the opposite side.
Example Sentences
- "Many of today's photographers forget that a pinhole camera — essentially a small box with a hole in it — can be used to produce a quality photograph."
- "There are never-published treasures like British entrepreneur William Turner's scenes of Shanghai life in the early 1900s — probably taken with a homemade pinhole camera."