Longest Pinhole Exposure Ever?

Promac · 30-07-2010 8:52am #1

http://gizmodo.com/5599616/longest-pinhole-exposure-ever-is-also-most-beautiful

Dunno if it's the "most beautiful" but it's pretty cool alright. 34 months and it's pretty clear for the most part.

Fajitas! · 30-07-2010 8:56am

I quite like it.

Sleepy · 30-07-2010 9:00am

How's this done? Extremely low ISO film with a pinhole a fixed distance from it? Or is focus just not something you bother about?

magicbastarder · 30-07-2010 9:02am

focus is not an issue with pinhole photography.
plus, it's easier to use paper for long exposure stuff because paper is less sensitive.

DaireQuinlan · 30-07-2010 9:03am

Everything is in focus with a pinhole, the f/stop will be something like f/295 or something (just to pick a random number

). It's probably done on paper or something, with this long an exposure it actually prints out, ie when you open the camera the image is actually right there, no development needed.

It's certainly much more ornate and detailed than the usual sky trail long exposures. I like it.

Sleepy · 30-07-2010 9:04am

So you open the camera and spray fixer on the sheet or something?

magicbastarder · 30-07-2010 9:06am

is this the same guy who used to black out his hotel room windows, paper the walls with photographic paper, and then punch a small hole in the window blackout?
he got images which could only be viewed correctly once the paper had been reconstructed in the shape of the original room.

DaireQuinlan · 30-07-2010 9:09am

Sleepy wrote: »

So you open the camera and spray fixer on the sheet or something?

I don't think you even need to do that, you just scan it as quickly as possible. It probably fades in time. Maybe there's some way of preserving the original, I don't know.

Promac · 30-07-2010 9:39am

Doing some random friday googling and I found this

http://www.pinhole.cz/en/pinholecameras/dirkon_01.html

You can download a camera that you cut out of paper and fold together yourself:

Might have to try it for a laugh.

magicbastarder · 30-07-2010 9:49am

you can do it with any camera you have a body cap for. drill a hole in the body cap, cover it with tinfoil, and pierce a small hole in the tinfoil.

Promac · 30-07-2010 10:01am

magicbastarder wrote: »

you can do it with any camera you have a body cap for. drill a hole in the body cap, cover it with tinfoil, and pierce a small hole in the tinfoil.

Wouldn't that just be gimping a perfectly good camera? I would've thought the point (fnar) of pinhole photography would be to cobble together a working camera from a cardboard box (or sheet of paper). For the ould DIY buzz like.

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