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| http://www.lomography.com/magazine/reviews /2009/10/14/home-made-pinhole-camera |
Before engaging in the assigned project about pin hole photography , I decided to do some additional research on the topic. Here is a summary of what I thought was interesting.
Pin hole cameras can be incredibly small or large. It is to me the most fascinating aspect about them.
Cameras have been made of coffee cans, shoe boxes, coke cans, empty refrigerators, station wagons,
entire rooms etc. Pretty much anything can be used as
a camera as long as there is a tiny hole at one end and
photographic paper (or film) at the other end.
Its special characteristics offer the users great experimental potential and a distinct possibilities. The pin hole camera is known to have an infinite depth of field. Also, exposures are long, ranging from seconds to several hours, offering the possibility of creating double exposure like images, or ghostly photos. The greatest thing is that pinhole cameras have widely differing image formats, permitting the photographer to create funky fish eye angles to better depict certain subjects or straight rectangular photos to illustrate the rigidity of a building's architecture.
Of course, every good thing has it's downsides. Those cameras are are not accommodating nor user-friendly and they require a lot of practice to achieve a good shot. A simple tremble or change in the sky can modify the final results.
Also, most likely, the pictures will be less sharp than pictures made with a lens.
Even if they are quite hard to use, they are still used by experimental photographers today such as Bogdan Chorostian , Brian Trevino and others. (http://www.pinhole.org/index.php/gallery)
It is believed to be on a summer day in 1827, that Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image (called sun prints at the time) with a camera obscura.
Prior to Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Niepce placed an engraving onto a metal plate coated in bitumen, and then exposed it to light. The shadowy areas of the engraving blocked light, but the whiter areas permitted light to react with the chemicals on the plate. When Niepce placed the metal plate in a solvent, gradually an image, until then invisible, appeared. However, Niepce's photograph required eight hours of light exposure to create and after appearing would soon fade away. (http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm)
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| This is an enhanced version of Niepce's work entitled View from the Window at Le Gras from 1826, retrieved on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /File:View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras,_Joseph_Nic%C3%A9phore_Ni%C3%A9pce.jpg |
The first published picture of a model of a pinhole camera obscura is apparently a drawing in Gemma Frisius' De Radio Astronomica et Geometrica (1545). Gemma Frisius, an astronomer, had used the pinhole in his darkened room to study the solar eclipse of 1544. Thus this type of camera differed from the pinhole camera obscura used by Frisius in 1544. In the 1620s Johannes Kepler invented a portable camera obscura. Camera obscuras as drawing aids were soon found in many shapes and sizes. They were used by both artists and amateur painters. (http://www.obscurajournal.com/history.php)
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| http://photoluminary.com/2013/03/past-photographic-processes-and-free-huge-set-of-vintage-film-lightroom-presets/ |
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