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probably to take a picture of something very bright, like the sun.

In reality, the pinhole camera is not the ideal instrument for taking photographs of the sun. It is used instead to create certain specific effects in the photograph. Light passing through the pinhole is not brought to a sharp focus on the image plane in the same way a lens would, so the sharpness of the image is limited, and dependent on the size of the pinhole, the distance of the pinhole from the film plane, and the amount of diffraction from the edges of the pinhole. Even with optimum sharpness, the image will be very soft, with fairly fuzzy outlines. In the hands of a skilled photographer, the effect can be very pleasing.

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it has a fixed small aperature, so everything will be in focus

therefore it will be used in security cameras or endoscopes.

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