uusisiltaOct 26, 2023

We left a pinhole camera pointing at the sun for an entire year.

Tada :D

#pinhole #photography #solarpath #finland #equinox

Show threadGareth KitchenOct 27, 2023
@uusisilta But over an entire year wouldn't the rest of the film also become exposed resulting in a completely white image. I'm having trouble imagining the set-up.
Show threadAmgineOct 27, 2023

@gruff @uusisilta

I am very curious as to the exact technique, but I expect it was a digital camera taking, effectively, a very very long set of time-lapse photographs. This image would be what you get when you layer all those separate images of each day into a single frame.

Show threaduusisiltaOct 27, 2023
@amgine @gruff it was a pinhole camera 😃
Show threadGareth KitchenOct 27, 2023
@uusisilta Yes, I got that from the OP. But I don't understand how the film doesn't become over-exposed, by taking 365 photos. I'm stuck visualizing the set-up/technique used. @amgine
Show threaduusisilta
@gruff @amgine pinhole cameras are left open to capture light very very slowly over a long period of time. Ideally I would have scanned the final result immediately, but I left it in its box for over a year so we lost the tree line details. Still got the sun though, which was the important bit! :D
Oct 27, 2023 at 7:34amWeb