Hello Chewie, Why or why not? I don't know. I'm not even sure why I came up with six chambers. I think because an anggle of view of 60 degrees is close to what we normally can see. But 8 x 45 degrees is also 360 degrees and is also close to the human eye.
The downside is that I have to make the focallength bigger (120,5 mm instead of 86,5 mm) to have the same covering on the negative. But that is not a big problem. Why did you think of 8 chambers instead of 6??? You wrote: "If you made the gap between the plane and the sides a fine light tight ( small area)" I'm not sure I understand what you mean. In the middle of the camera (looking from above) there will be the filmplane (round, squarre, octagonal, ...). The pinholes are placed on the outside at about 86.5 to 120.5 mm distance from the filmplane. There are no walls between the filmplane and the outside to realy seperate the chambers. This way you get one negative all the way around. Maybe a bit softer or darker on the corners, but one image of 360 degrees. Is this what you meant?? Bert -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Overkill Verzonden: zaterdag 6 september 2003 18:40 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: RE: [Cameramakers] help requested on designing a 360 degrees pinhole camera Bert, Just a thought while reading your post. Why not use 8 chambers and wrap the negative around an octagon? The angles would not be severe enough to tear the negative, and it would allow for 8 flat planes. If you made the gap between the plane and the sides a fine light tight ( small area), there may not be a need to stitch the images together. (Hope that makes sense) I have not tried it but it interests. I am curious to see what happens. Chewie from Idaho Hello everybody, I have made three wooden pinhole cameras recently, just for the fun of it. I've posted some pictures on: http://pinhole.tegenlicht.com/pinholefotos.htm Now I want to take this hobby a step further: I want to build a pinhole camera for a view of 360 degrees (= all around) and I could use some help with it. Bert from Holland _______________________________________________ Cameramakers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmp.opusis.com/mailman/listinfo/cameramakers _______________________________________________ Cameramakers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmp.opusis.com/mailman/listinfo/cameramakers _______________________________________________ Cameramakers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rmp.opusis.com/mailman/listinfo/cameramakers
