Monday, January 2, 2012

Photographer captures six months in one shot using a pinhole camera made from a tea box




Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2079982/Now-THATS-long-exposure-Photographer-captures-months-shot-using-pinhole-camera-tea-box.html


A retired professor from the University of Southampton has captured a whole six months of light in one image. Dr Greg Parker turned his pinhole camera - made from an old tea box - to the sky on June 21, the longest day, this year, and retrieved it on December 22, the Winter Solstice.
The image captures a whole six months of the sun in one exposure. It's possible because pinhole cameras don't expose a film as such - instead, the image is burnt into a sheet of paper.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2079982/Now-THATS-long-exposure-Photographer-captures-months-shot-using-pinhole-camera-tea-box.html#ixzz1iK8pjoxC

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