Panoramic Pinhole Camera

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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.

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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.

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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.

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