Modular Pinhole Lens

The modular Skink Pinhole Pancake System is the ideal addition to your camera and offers new creative opportunities to the photo enthusiast. Pinhole disks, zone plates or zone sieves – also in combination with suitable filters can easily be swapped and installed between the retaining rings in the center of the Pancake lens. Depending on the desired effect, you can use your camera as a pinhole-, zone plate- or zones sieve camera.

To a high degree the installed aperture determines how your vision is creatively interpreted in rendering an image. The traditional pinhole creates relatively sharp images with exposure times ranging from a fraction of a second to several minutes.

A zone plate is made up of a patterns of radially symmetric rings, which surround a pinhole sized central zone. Alternating transparent and opaque rings allow the light to pass through which renders and image by diffraction. In comparison to pinhole, images turn out softer with a painterly, impressionists’ character. Highlight are emphasized and appear with a dreamy halo-effect, while darker areas seem to be pushed into the background. Zone plates and zone sieves also have a larger transparent area. This translates into a lower f-value and increased light sensitivity, which makes handheld photography with higher speed possible.

Skink Pinhole Pancake lenses are made of premium quality materials to satisfy highest demands in terms of design, usability and image quality.

The “Retro” Pinhole Lens

The Skink Pinhole Pancake is manufactured using high quality materials:

Material: Aluminium – solid, black anodized with universal closure for easy exchange of pinhole apertures or zone plates

Mount: for Canon EOS / EF

Maximum Diameter of aperture disks: 20mm

Focal Length: 42mm (distance between aperture and film / sensor)

Aperture: f/145

Angle of View: 54°

Filter Thread: 46mm