Panoramic Pinhole Camera

[Daxxie]

With only novice experience with 35mm cameras, well any camera at that, i decided to build a Pin hole camera. God knows why i decided to as it was a massive ball ache.

You might be able to tell that i didn't know what i was doing from the complexity of the design. and although i did eventually get it to work, i would not advice anyone to do a panoramic camera unless you spend more than 5 minutes thinking about it like i didn't.



There are 10 camera boxes. But the back is open so the pin holes projections merge into one image. ( obviously i forgot that everything is back to front when building the camera. dooh!)

This means that it will never create realistic photos as everything is all over the place. But i quite liked that.

First test images. ( i mean first in that these were the first of 10s that actually worked)



I then took the panoramic, split it up and photoshopped it back into an image that makes sense.



At this point shutter speed was all over the place. 2 hours inside and underexposed? but 3 minutes outside and it became over exposed. Even after hundreds of photos taken i still don't have it fully ironed out.

here is a Panoramic of a field near me.



I had to rearrange the photographs so they made sense unfortunately, but i will scan some in so you can see other Panos.

Apologies for grammar it is late.

Also god knows if the images worked.

[rottie102]

Let me the be the first to ask:


WHY?

[Daxxie]

rottie102 said:

Let me the be the first to ask:


WHY?

I'm an architecture student, so decided to map out the perimeter of a site using a camera.

[spitfire4v8]

as failures go may i say you've failed in a brilliantly interesting way love it.

[Berz]

Daxxie said:

( obviously i forgot that everything is back to front when building the camera. dooh!)

Turn the camera upside down

[Simpo Two]

I expect some arty types would go mad for that look and pay thousands per print in some poncey art gallery. You just need an 'angle'...

Until then I'm putting you one step behind Fox Talbot

[CVP]

Wonderful in a "bloke knocks up strange apparatus in his shed" kind of way. A doff of the hat to you for building it, even if it didn't quite work out as you'd expected.

[_dobbo_]

My experience of pinhole cameras started and ended with this cardboard contraption:





Which basically does a panoramic out of the box as it exposes three or four frames of 35mm:





It was fun but standing around for several minutes per exposure gets old pretty quickly!

I love the lunacy of this project

[Daxxie]

I love the lunacy of this project
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The field i took the pictures of was an hour away from a dark room, with 5 failed attempts at getting the shot it got a bit more than frustrating.

I would love to try a 6 month exposure on a camera like that, maybe one day.

[Daxxie]

this was a ten minute exposure and you can even see the corn blurring at the bottom due to the wind

[ecs]

I can see my first flat in that one