Hello Chewie,
I'll also send you an other reply I got from someone called Nathan. Please
read my reply to him and let me know what you think?
Thanks,
Bert
----------------message from Nathan---------------------------
Bert,
Yes, I have seen jan kapoors work before also. In my class each student
chose a pinhole photographer to present to the class and she was one of
them. There was a real interesting guy who makes his cameras self contained
out of the photographic paper, in shapes like a pyramid with the pinhole at
the top, the finished product was real interesting, i'll try to find his
name and a link to his website.
Jan Kapoors hexagonal camera is what you had been looking for right?
---------------my reply to Nathan------------------------------
The Jan's hexagonal camera (see: http://www.jankapoor.net/HexCamera.html)
shows me what it could be with the negative in a circle in the middle. It
gives some very nice (and unique) pictures.
However, this is not the style I'm looking for. I want to make a kind of
Panorama camera. Jan's images are not overlapping in the right way.
It is more like several negatives printed next to each other on one paper.
Don't get me wrong: I like the effect but it isn't usefull as a Panorama.
That makes me wonder where she went "wrong" : is it because the filmplane
was curved? I'm not sure but I dont think so. There are rotating panorama
cameras, that - by rotating - also use a curved filmplane. I think that her
camera isn't of the right dimensions: a matter of mathematics.
If you want to see everything around you, you'll have to mak an angle of
view of 360 degrees. If I do this in six steps this would be a turn of 360/6
= 60 degrees for every step.
However, if the combination of the negative size and the focallength gives
an other angle of view, the six images won't fit together in the right way.
If I use a normal 35mm camera and shoot six pictures in every direction
(turning 60 degrees around each time) the wil only fit if I use a 60 mm
lens. If I use a 35 mm lens the pictures are overlapping, If I use a 100 mm
lens there will be parts missing between the pictures.
I think that, if Jan would increase or decrease the diameter of the circle
of the negative she'll get a whole different kind of picture.
Maybe this is something I should test.......
Bert
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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
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