PDA

View Full Version : Lake Tahoe is blue

mikekelley
21st of November 2009 (Sat), 17:22
Why yes it is.

1/8th, iso 200,
i think it's closer to f/64 but the camera reported 0. no lens, just the cap with a hole drilled through it.

digital pinhole

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2732/4123347336_aac90c07fd.jpg
jetcode
21st of November 2009 (Sat), 17:51
cool, nice to see some old school make it's way to the digital age ...
MikeFairbanks
21st of November 2009 (Sat), 19:12
When I was in highschool, a lot of students took photography (I took woodshop and metalshop). Before they were allowed to use a camera they had to successfully make one and take a photo, plus develop and print it.

Very cool.
mikekelley
21st of November 2009 (Sat), 19:25
Now that's an awesome idea for a class!
MikeFairbanks
21st of November 2009 (Sat), 21:05
Yeah. The preferred box for the pinhole camera was the round Quaker Oatmeal box. Everyone in photoshop made one (yeah, it was actually called photoshop---heck, there wasn't even software by that name yet).

Autoshop, woodshop, metalshop, and photoshop, all in the same building. It was a great building.

Those days are over, unfortunately. Now every kid is going to college (yeah, right).

I remember the metalshop teacher saying that the biggest threat to the American worker was automation. None of us even knew the word offshoring yet.

If only we had known.
Picture North Carolina
22nd of November 2009 (Sun), 06:50
When I was in highschool, a lot of students took photography (I took woodshop and metalshop). Before they were allowed to use a camera they had to successfully make one and take a photo, plus develop and print it.

Very cool.

Yep. With a small cardboard box. But it wasn't loaded with film, it was loaded with photographic paper. And the shutter was a piece of tape over the pinhole. Lift up the tape, get an exposure, then stick it back down again.

Sort of a ridiculous project, but when you think about it, it teaches the very basic of basics about how a camera works: light-tight container, a light-sensitive surface, and a light source that can be turned on and off. Everything after that is easy to understand.
mikekelley
22nd of November 2009 (Sun), 14:45
You can even turn your room at home into a giant pinhole camera if you can find a way to put a hole in your blinds or whatever. In college at one point I used to wake up to Burlington, VT projected on my wall via pinhole blinds :lol: