Digital Camera Reviews

The southern California premier exhibition of the World’s Largest Photograph - which is 3,375 square feet - will be at THE South Campus of Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design in the Wind Tunnel Gallery. Only a handful of museums in the world are large enough to display it. The Great Picture is a history-making gelatin silver photographic image three stories high by eleven stories wide. The $65,000 photograph was made using a shuttered Southern California F-18 jet aircraft hangar transformed into a gigantic camera obscura—the largest camera ever made.

All together I had about 18 8×10 prints which consisted mostly of portraits that I took of other students at Iwate University. I also had a collection of 9 pictures that I took using a pinhole camera. For one 8×10 print, I was usually able to make about 2 of those prints a night in the darkroom.

Check out some of the cool photos taken with this Pintoids pinhole camera. You can even buy one of these. Nice!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the hardcore concepts of photography, but want to make an amazing panoramic collage that doesn’t look like Dada-crap, try this out, and as a bonus, it has directions on how to add your personal flair to the Flickr panography group.

My cube-mate thinks that the bottom images looks like a reflection in water. But it isn’t… I set the pinhole camera under the trees facing up. I think the effect is really nice. But they are a little dark - I think I left the pinhole open for too long. I was trying to figure out the timing because it was an overcast day.

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was flipping through my huge box of photos and I happened to find my old pinhole pictures that were taken during that first week of photo class in 11th grade. Our assignment was to make our own pinhole camera with an oatmeal box and then play around with exposure time and while doing this, learn about chemicals and the development process.

Our judge will be Hal Gould of Camera Obscura Gallery in Denver. A tireless advocate of photography and himself a master photographer, Hal founded the Colorado Photographic Art Center in 1963. Photographs by Hal Gould are part of several corporate and private collections and have been exhibited widely, including the Denver Art Museum in 2000. He has received numerous awards including the National Award — the Professional Photographers of America’s top award — and the Gold Medal Grand Prize in the International Federation of Photographers’ Competition in Riga, Latvia.

The notion of the personal camera, the phone camera, the security camera and the hidden camera - not as removed observers of space but as occupants of space fixed into the physicality of the space. Their prime sensibility is one of tangible occupation, of presence.

Most digital cameras support panoramic support but if you like antiques and retro-gadgets, you might want to take a look at this cool panoramic pinhole camera!

It was a school project he selected on his own - a pinhole camera. Although I’ve read and seen pictures taken with pinhole cameras, I’ve never used one, and despite understanding the theory, I was pretty skeptical that he’d be able to get anything more than some fuzzy grey shapes.

I’m very happy that March is just over a week away. The weather we’ve been getting has been keeping me from getting out shooting much. I have a bucket full of ideas that need to be explored. One of them is trying to rig up one of my old cameras to actually shoot some film again. I haven’t shot film in over a year. I also have decided to make a pinhole camera this year. That might be a good project to keep me busy until I can get outside shooting again more regularly.

But, hey, a camera is a camera and I realized, recently, that, while a high-end camera helps with the quality of your photo, it doesn’t make you a photographer… I’ve always been able to get the best out of any camera I’ve owned - including the pinhole camera that I built back in 11th grade.

I have been a big fan of table top tripods that are not limited to the table and have loved my compact Ultrapod 2, however, the newly released Gorillapod series of tripods attaches to almost anything. Joby makes 3 different sizes of these cute, not cuddly, Gorillapods, I’ve used them all and I have to say that I finally found the perfect one for me! The Gorillapod SLR Zoom holds a whopping 6lbs of camera goodness almost anywhere you go. See the below picture of my Zero Image 6×12F pinhole camera attached to a tree in upstate New York. I highly recommend using a cable release or the self timer in your camera when it is attached to the Gorillapod as some immediate shake can happen from depressing the shutter.

Cross-processed (slide film processed in print film chemistry) image taken with my trusty old 6×9 folding pinhole camera. f/295, about 6 seconds.

Venice, photographs on Polaroid 55 film taken with a primitive pinhole camera, part 1.

Because the 30 deg F high today is going to be the warmest it will be all week, I took the opportunity to walk up to Gamma in order to drop of my recently completed roll of film from my pinhole camera. The camera takes 120 roll film and, given how poorly my last rolls of film faired at the hands of Wolf Camera (who sends it out to who knows where), I thought it better to let the professionals do the processing.

I signed up for the annual pinhole print exchange and then promptly forgot that I had done so. My first one arrived Dec 1, and the sender quickly brought me up to speed

Sony-Ericsson’s familiar candybar design is augmented by a pinhole camera above the screen for video calling. Other cool features include an RSS reader for news headlines, one-touch “moblogging” for sharing snaps online and A2DP for pristine stereo via Bluetooth.

Next we move on to depth of field. This is actually a really simple term that just refers to how much of the image area is in focus. Pictures that have everything in focus are said to have a high depth of field, where pictures that have a small area in focus, and a lot of blurry back/foreground are said to have a narrow depth of field. The length (zoom) of the lens and the aperture are two of the biggest factors that determine the depth of field. With out getting too teched out, if you understand how a pinhole camera works, you will understand why a higher f stop (thus a smaller hole) creates a greater depth of field.

Bonnie Burton made a pinhole camera that looks like R2 D2. Here's her tutorial.