Pinhole Camera Essay

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A PINHOLE CAMERA A pinhole camera is a camera without a conventional glass lens. An extremely small hole in a very thin material can focus light when all rays from a scene go through a single point. In order to produce a reasonably clear image, the aperture has to be about 1/100th the distance to the screen, or less. The shutter of a pinhole camera usually consists of a hand operated flap of some light-proof material to cover and uncover the pinhole. A common use of a pinhole camera is to capture the movement of sunlight over a long period of time. This type of photography is called Solar graph. Pinhole cameras require much longer exposure times than conventional cameras because of the small aperture; typical exposure times can range from 5 seconds to hours or days. The image may be projected on a translucent screen for real-time viewing (popular for viewing solar eclipse see also camera obscure. HOW IS PINHOLE CEMERA MADE ? Take two rectangular boxes one a bit bigger than other that it can fit in other box. First take bigger rectangular boxes cut one small side of it and leave the other small side and two big sides and paint any dark color out side and leave inside .take smaller rectangular boxes and cut both smaller sides and paint black inside . paint any dark color outside and stick a tracing paper or masking tape on one side and make a pin hole on bigger box and pinhole camera is made INVENTION OF PINHOLE CAMERA Very early in history (as far back as 500 B.C.), Greeks such as Aristotle and eucline wrote on naturally-occurring rudimentary pinhole cameras, for example light may travel through the slits of wicker baskets and the crossing of leaves The ancient Greek , however, believed that our eye emitted rays which enabled us to see. What enabled a much better understanding of the pinhole camera was the discovery that light enters the eye rather

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