Gizmodo: pinhole

Six-Month-Long Camera Exposure Shows Both Winter and Summer Solstices

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Justin Quinnell left his homemade pinhole camera continuously exposed for a whopping six months to capture this incredible photo of Saint Mary Redcliffe Church in the UK.

Those individual lines are images of the sun trailing across the sky: The lowest one is the winter solstice, captured on December 22nd, and the highest one is the summer solstice, which took place on June 20th. Quinnell, a professional pinhole photographer (he consulted and shot The Brothers Bloom as well) has done this kind of very long-term exposure before, including another six-month shot of his hometown of Bristol, but it's not the easiest project to undertake:

Most of the cameras survived 6 months of wind, rain, hail (and being thrown in the bin!). Several were blank; one was full of water, (the emulsion on the photographic material having floated off.) and one, still exposing, currently sits inaccessibly under 10 foot of bramble, waiting forever to be recovered.

It's pretty amazing stuff. There's nothing like a six-month-long exposure to make your camera's panoramic mode seem like child's play. [Pinhole Photography]

Tibetan Monk Skull Pinhole Camera Probably Takes Afterworld Snaps (NSFW gallery)

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST

This is Yama, a pinhole camera made of silver, gold, mercury, gem stones and a Tibetan monk skull blessed by a Lama. Even if I had the $5,000 that it costs, I won't buy it.

And unless you are Dr. Stephen Strange, I won't recommend it either. I mean, not only it looks terrifyingly freaking, but it probably has magical powers. Seriously, just looking at the photo gives me goosebumps. All the wrong ones.

The Yama, named after the Tibetan god of death, is designed by Wayne Martin Belger. [Boy of Blue via Born Rich]

NSFW note: There are images in this gallery showing genitals. They are artsy, but if you can't watch those things, don't enlarge.

Printoutable Pinhole Cameras: Old, New Imaging Tech Collide

Kit Eaton — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:43 EDT

Did you ever do a pinhole camera experiment in school? No? You missed out on some good long-exposure fun. But now you can catch up: the folks at picture agency Corbis have got a bunch of strange designs you can print out, stick to some card and turn into your very own pinhole camera. The idea is that you stick some 35mm film in them, but if you want to mess around with chemicals (always the most fun part of it all, to my mind) you could always pop a bit of photo paper inside. Should take you right back to the early days of photography... great for landscapes, or those stern-looking portraits of people prepared to sit very still for a while. [Corbis via Crave]

Pinhole Camera: Disguised as a Screwhead

Brian Lam — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:39:19 EDT

This wireless pinhole video camera looks like a screw. Pervy, ain't it? We don't know anything else about this cam, as the blog we're linking to just shows some stats (300 lines of resolution.) If anyone knows something, drop us a tip.– Brian Lam

Pinhole Camera [Darkcreek]

Pinhole Camera Truck

gizmodo.com — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:09:50 EDT

Okay, so it's not the biggest pinhole camera ever, but the crew behind the Camera Truck deserves kudos nonetheless for making a truck into a very large pinhole camera (their negatives are 1.30m x 3m, 4,500ish times the size of conventional negatives) and then spending a month driving it around the Iberian peninsula taking photos. They shot about 80 photos, twenty of which will be showing in Spain's prestigious PhotoEspaña photography festival in June and July.

cameratruck.net [via MAKE Blog]