A pinhole camera is a camera that has a pinhole aperture but no lens. a pinhole is a lightproof box with a small hole on the side. The inventor of the pinhole camera is a man named Ibn al-Haythem. it was invented in the fifth century bc. some facts about the pinhole camera are that its the most simple camera, it does not have a lens, and the image that comes form it is always inverted. It works by using the pin, paper clip, or pencil as a tiny camera lens and the sun shines through it and it comes through the other side.
pictures taken by a pinhole camera:
what a pinhole camera looks like:
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