@@hopmajibhohepeajibho7595 it was just 15 minutes of staying still. But hey, when your nephews can see your picture 150 years later and say this is gradpa xyz it's worth it. besides, the alternative was drawing which was likely even longer.
Never thought people will able to take a photo without a proper camera I am now, very much aware of the existence of a pinhole camera/camera obscura. Now, will all of you please stop reminding me of my stupidity
The original name was 'canera' and goes back to an experiment in which someone had converted a beer can into a 'canera' and exposed a picture for over 6 months.
Those cameras can can expose an image for a lot longer than 30 seconds. You just have to switch the shutter to "bulb". I've taken 15 minute exposures before on a camera less advanced than that.
@@Trenty_Boi It was a picture of a mountain in a desert somewhere during the night, and there where a ton of stars in the night sky, but since the expose was son long it captured the movement of the stars, and they were streaked across the sky in curving lines. Looked pretty good imo.
@@bageltondinglequandaleseba6928you don't need film, you expose the image directly onto photo paper. You just need the developing solution and fixative. Of course the image you then get is a negative itself, which the video doesn't explain, so I assume they just inverted the colors digitally.
Each streak is a record of the sunlight on that day, covering times of sunrise and sunset, as well as all the cloud cover. That’s low key genius, as a meteorological tool.
You know how silver tarnishes? That's how film works. It's coated in super fine silver halide crystals, and they tarnish at a set rate. So when the shutter opens, the areas that get more light tarnish faster, and become darker. This process is then "fixed" in complete darkness to stabilize the film and create the negatives from it. Then you can go to an amber bulb and shine light back through your negative onto a photo reactive paper, which is then developed and cut and becomes your image! Man I miss working in the darkroom.
Sorry, but that's not true. Silver tarnishes by the silver reacting to sulfur compounds in the air, creating silver sulfide. Film emulsions contain light sensitive silver salts that get charged by exposure to light, and in the developer the charged particles are reduced to silver metal. The fixer then removes the unexposed silver salts. (If you don't fix the film, the silver salts that were not exposed in the camera will darken, destroying the image, and also the film wouldn't be transparent).
Gianluca Belgrado is the name of the artist than made the shot shown at the beginning of the video, this was NASA’s picture of the day on June 27, 2019.
It’s called a pinhole camera. Basically use any light sealed container. I did this 23 years ago using a rubbish bin for a huge print. Put the photo paper inside. Make a tiny hole, cover it in tape. Remove tap to start exposing light to the paper. Cover again to stop. Take to dark room to process.
With this technique - solargraphy - you don't process the paper. You scan it then reverse the image in Photoshop or similar. Developing the print would ruin the shot.
It’s a short because he didn’t actually do it.. just took someone’s picture and someone else’s video showing how the camera it’s made and decided to not give additional context to make people believe this is his work… just shady “creators” nowadays
Its called solarigraphy, ist called that way bc that long exposure captures the path of the sun trough the sky.Its a very intersting way of capturing images, its not that hard to do, i reccomend to look it up if your interested.
Need to clarify that digital camera (majority of camera nowadays/camera without film) do not use chemicals for pictures or to record , instead they have a sensor. Therefore showing a digital camera in the video isn’t great. Cool content tho
There’s a couple of things wrong with this explanation. Most of the time You were showing a digital camera which doesn’t use film. Digital cameras use sensors which convert the light into electrical signals, which then is turned into an image on a screen. Second, im not sure the model of that camera, but seems to be some sort of mirrorless camera. I would be surprised if it didn’t have a bulb setting, which means it could keep that aperture open as long as you wanted via holding the shutter button, using an app, using an intervalometer, etc
I know a guy who knows one of the project members, they seem pretty cool. Also, in the end, instead of cans they used electrical supply boxes and simmilar, cuz it got destoryed so often... Also, in krefeld germany there was a small exhebition of the photos
What was the purpose of the project? This is a very common high school assignment, and a technique that goes back many decades. On its own it isn't exactly the most creative concept.
@@j.c.k.8639lol… anyone can take a picture with a pinhole camera… it doesn’t make it art… it would be nice if you provided more info on the project to check it out.
I remember doing something like this as a project in photography class. Worked for everyone in the class except for Me, always came out as solid black after processing it in the dark room and I got an F for the project because of it and failed the class. (Despite 4 or 5 attempts)
It works because It's a special type of film, not because of the pinhole lol. A pinhole will still let in enough light for regular photos and regular film
It's not a special film either, it's photopaper. What makes it even more special, that the development of such picture is really different than printing on it.
@@aditisanthosh4508 I'm afraid it's not that easy. Photopaper for subtractive inkjet printing is just paper but sensitised photopaper has a silver halide layer that is developed almost in the same way as photography film. The latter is used for solarography
I remember someone did that for getting the stars and other astronomical entities. Took the person a year. That was the first case of someone doing that.
I'd like to see this done in a flat box that wouldn't distort the shapes. Someone should make a kit where you buy a pre loaded little box and punch your own hole with an included tool and guide. Place it anywhere you'd like, punch the hole, wait, retrieve, then mail it in and get your picture emailed back for less or snail mailed back for more. Does such a kit already exist?
My fathers former student did something similar. We have two of his originals in the living room and they're some of my favourite photographs out there
Did a project of this in my high school photography class, making a camera obscure out of a Pringles can. It was really cool and really drove home *how* cameras work, which I think every aspiring photographer should know
Your camera can do longer exposures than 30 seconds. Change the mode to „Bulb“ then attach a remote shutter and push the button for as long as you want. Alternatively, connect a shutter computer. They usually go up to an hour. For 6 month of exposure, connect a dummy battery that plugs into a USB Charger. Attach a 2.5mm audio cable to the remote shutter port and shorten the pins. The exposure is unlimited now.
@@Superbus753 It probably depends on the manufacturer. but yes, there might be an upper limit. However, you can set the shutter computer to take the nect photo right away and merge them in your editing software of your choosing.
You can hold a camera's shutter open for longer than 30" using BULB. It allows the use of a locking remote, to hold the shutter open. The issue, is having a camera running that long it would start to have failures. A pinhole camera, has no functioning parts so it can be left for long periods to expose an image without concern it will stop functioning.
Did you cover the hole with tape and just expose it for a couple of minutes each week or something? When I did this in high school, we also just used pin-holes but we did the whole thing within one 40 minute class. I can't imagine anything happening other than the photo paper just turning jet black as soon as it hit the developing solution for anything as long as 6-12 months
@@DanielCrist As far as I am aware, we just poked the hole, placed the film inside, and let it sit for the entire time. When we got the result back, it was actually super washed out, rather than all black like we had expected. A few tweaks in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and it actually turned out halfway decent. Still couldn't make out shapes though, sadly
@@Frost_0__ sounds strange. We did ours for just a few minutes and when we put them in the developing bath the images appeared just as fast as if we had used a projector and negative strips
You can use dslr and shoot for longer than 30sec. Bulb is a function on almost all cameras and shooting at night or star trails you can have 30min+, no problem.
You didn't even mention the coolest part of the photo is that all the arched, banded lines are the daily path of the sun fom Summer (at the top) to Winter at the bottom. Clouds passing are breaks in the lines and gaps between the bands are cloudy days. You can eaven see a run of days where it appears there may have been a yellow smokey haze in the sky. What a great photograph!
@@ElektronikLabor i really need to buy one myself, just dont have the money for it even thought it's only like 2ü bucks. Its really annoying to either hold bulb or do several exposures. My Nikon D5200 can only do 9 exposures one after another until i need to click again._.
@ElektronikLabor im doing mostly Astrophotography (~100x 30 seconds since I can't do more) And ND filter daylight long exposures. But I guess I don't need an IV for that, but I'd love one for astrophotography. My top thing on my bucket list is an H-Alpha filter- Guess that's a thing that's sadly way to expensive for me:(
This is nitpicking, but: I thought a Sony Alpha whatever could do open shutter for an unlimited time? Like, for astrophotography etc? Even my old EOS 400d could do that.
I made pin hole cameras for a photography project at school also I don’t know weather he meant when developing the film or taking the photo when he mentioned it’s had to be dark because I would think that if it was taking the picture you could just change the settings.
“What camera do you use?
“can”
"Budweiser"
I am the author of the photo you see at the beginning of the video, I used a 3cm aluminum tube, 15cm high.
"Can-on".😜
"hold my beer"
can, on
Street photographer: can I take a photo of you? You look stunning!
Person: Yeah sure.
Photographer: Please stay still for 6 months
😂😂😂
Literally the way people took photos back then
@@hopmajibhohepeajibho7595 it was just 15 minutes of staying still. But hey, when your nephews can see your picture 150 years later and say this is gradpa xyz it's worth it. besides, the alternative was drawing which was likely even longer.
It took 10 mins back then to Take a photo😂
“ok, can you give me the photos then?”
Never thought people will able to take a photo without a proper camera
I am now, very much aware of the existence of a pinhole camera/camera obscura. Now, will all of you please stop reminding me of my stupidity
Camera obscura mate.
@@Woodland_Adventuresr/wooosh
You can turn your room into a camera obscura. Look it up
@@mikeobannion2129 I actually didn't know about camera obscura.
Thats how ca.n/m.man28 was born
This is just brilliant
Yea
No, its obscure.
Pretty dim actually
@@RaoulWB underrated
@@nikolaiuberhoff4622
Actually the second comment is underrated, because the name of this type of camera is „camera obscura“
People tend to forget the meaning of the word "camera", which is pretty much "box, room, closed space"
Dutch word for room is 'kamer'
My history teacher told me we (US) have a bicameral system of government.
The original name was 'canera' and goes back to an experiment in which someone had converted a beer can into a 'canera' and exposed a picture for over 6 months.
Camera basically a room
German word for chamber and small room is Kammer.
I'd love to do this as a project experiment
Me to. Seems straight forward
I did that in physisch class
Fake if it's in a beer can with a p8n hole it can't get houses in the picturr
@@user-do2ux4kx9lbro what are you talking about
@@user-do2ux4kx9lyou clearly don't understand how this works.
Would make a sick album cover
Those cameras can can expose an image for a lot longer than 30 seconds. You just have to switch the shutter to "bulb". I've taken 15 minute exposures before on a camera less advanced than that.
How'd it look!
@@Trenty_Boi It was a picture of a mountain in a desert somewhere during the night, and there where a ton of stars in the night sky, but since the expose was son long it captured the movement of the stars, and they were streaked across the sky in curving lines. Looked pretty good imo.
Bro i love random fotoshooters so, Whats your instagram? I wanna see your pictures
@@Trenty_Boisearch up "long exposure photos" its really interesting
My longest was 4.5 hours
We used to do this in school with coffee cans, it was quite cool:)
We did it in school with shoe boxes because it didn't need to take much longer lol
I remember doing that with an oatmeal container but not for 6 months.
in what school would u find pieces of film
@@bageltondinglequandaleseba6928you don't need film, you expose the image directly onto photo paper. You just need the developing solution and fixative. Of course the image you then get is a negative itself, which the video doesn't explain, so I assume they just inverted the colors digitally.
@@bageltondinglequandaleseba6928 Schools who buy pieces of film
Each streak is a record of the sunlight on that day, covering times of sunrise and sunset, as well as all the cloud cover.
That’s low key genius, as a meteorological tool.
And with some time and effort it‘s possible to deduce in which specific time span it was taken, as well as the rough position of the „canera“.
Nkce
@@rpgaleksylalo
This could probably get someone an A for a high-school science project
Fr and it’s so easy 😂. 5 min setup and then just wait 6 months lmao
F it I'll do it
Teacher: where's the project:
You: I 'll submit in the next semester. 😂
You know how silver tarnishes? That's how film works. It's coated in super fine silver halide crystals, and they tarnish at a set rate. So when the shutter opens, the areas that get more light tarnish faster, and become darker. This process is then "fixed" in complete darkness to stabilize the film and create the negatives from it. Then you can go to an amber bulb and shine light back through your negative onto a photo reactive paper, which is then developed and cut and becomes your image! Man I miss working in the darkroom.
Sorry, but that's not true. Silver tarnishes by the silver reacting to sulfur compounds in the air, creating silver sulfide.
Film emulsions contain light sensitive silver salts that get charged by exposure to light, and in the developer the charged particles are reduced to silver metal. The fixer then removes the unexposed silver salts. (If you don't fix the film, the silver salts that were not exposed in the camera will darken, destroying the image, and also the film wouldn't be transparent).
Camera obscura rooms are pretty cool. You can do them sort of easily
That big triangle is the sun, moon, stars and clouds. Below it is the cityscape.
Thanks! My one disappointment of the video was that the photo was glossed over and not given any context.
I did solarigraphy for a school project once
The wait is worth it
The max is 30 seconds?
You mean you don't have bulb mode😭
I think he means without a timer
he has bulb mode he just doesnt know how to use it probably
6 months has to be the proper way
i think my camera is 60 seconds
I think the max exposure time in bulb is about 100 hours
That’s how you know he was drunk when he came up with this idea
Man's really took the saying "It's not the pen that makes the artwork, it's the artist" to another level
Gianluca Belgrado is the name of the artist than made the shot shown at the beginning of the video, this was NASA’s picture of the day on June 27, 2019.
This is actually what i had to do as my first project of my senior year engineering class. Its so cool to learn about and apply this stuff
People need to remember that films still exist and you don't need a full fledged camera to "expose them to the light".
It’s called a pinhole camera. Basically use any light sealed container. I did this 23 years ago using a rubbish bin for a huge print. Put the photo paper inside. Make a tiny hole, cover it in tape. Remove tap to start exposing light to the paper. Cover again to stop. Take to dark room to process.
With this technique - solargraphy - you don't process the paper. You scan it then reverse the image in Photoshop or similar. Developing the print would ruin the shot.
This deserved a proper long video about the process and not only a short video
It’s a short because he didn’t actually do it.. just took someone’s picture and someone else’s video showing how the camera it’s made and decided to not give additional context to make people believe this is his work… just shady “creators” nowadays
Its called solarigraphy, ist called that way bc that long exposure captures the path of the sun trough the sky.Its a very intersting way of capturing images, its not that hard to do, i reccomend to look it up if your interested.
Did this in photography course but 6 months is just next level
Yeah. I do a lot of solargraphy and the longest I've had a camera out for is 12 weeks.
This looks like it could pass for a Pink Floyd album cover.
That was the most concise, simple, elegant and understandable explanation of how film cameras work that I’ve ever heard
You can literally see the cloudy days, unreal photo!
Simply amazing! ❤❤
Need to clarify that digital camera (majority of camera nowadays/camera without film) do not use chemicals for pictures or to record , instead they have a sensor.
Therefore showing a digital camera in the video isn’t great. Cool content tho
I love how can tell sunny from cloudy and partly cloudy days
Brilliant and creative. Nice!
There’s a couple of things wrong with this explanation. Most of the time You were showing a digital camera which doesn’t use film. Digital cameras use sensors which convert the light into electrical signals, which then is turned into an image on a screen.
Second, im not sure the model of that camera, but seems to be some sort of mirrorless camera. I would be surprised if it didn’t have a bulb setting, which means it could keep that aperture open as long as you wanted via holding the shutter button, using an app, using an intervalometer, etc
I know a guy who knows one of the project members, they seem pretty cool.
Also, in the end, instead of cans they used electrical supply boxes and simmilar, cuz it got destoryed so often...
Also, in krefeld germany there was a small exhebition of the photos
What was the purpose of the project? This is a very common high school assignment, and a technique that goes back many decades. On its own it isn't exactly the most creative concept.
@@DanielCrist its art
@@j.c.k.8639lol… anyone can take a picture with a pinhole camera… it doesn’t make it art… it would be nice if you provided more info on the project to check it out.
I remember doing something like this as a project in photography class.
Worked for everyone in the class except for Me, always came out as solid black after processing it in the dark room and I got an F for the project because of it and failed the class.
(Despite 4 or 5 attempts)
It works because It's a special type of film, not because of the pinhole lol. A pinhole will still let in enough light for regular photos and regular film
It's not a special film either, it's photopaper. What makes it even more special, that the development of such picture is really different than printing on it.
It's not film at all and there's nothing special about it. It's plain old B&W photo paper. The technique is called solargraphy.
@@Ss0oUuLlCan any photopaper be used? As in the ones used for printing digital photos??
@@aditisanthosh4508 I'm afraid it's not that easy. Photopaper for subtractive inkjet printing is just paper but sensitised photopaper has a silver halide layer that is developed almost in the same way as photography film. The latter is used for solarography
@@Ss0oUuLl any specific brands I can use as a beginner. Cuz Ilford is kinda expensive
For anyone wondering, it’s a “camera obscura” or pinhole camera
This is how the sun dance goes when at the right place the sun goes a
Up and down each six month this is know as the "sun ballet"
Very cool idea and beautiful resulting foto!
You can also do this with a pringles can. Needed to make it on my study photography, works pretty good
This is pure creativity! Never would I have thought it was done with a frickin can..
30 seconds is the minimum it can automatically take, the maximum can be hours.. depending on memory and battery.
I remember someone did that for getting the stars and other astronomical entities. Took the person a year. That was the first case of someone doing that.
I'd like to see this done in a flat box that wouldn't distort the shapes. Someone should make a kit where you buy a pre loaded little box and punch your own hole with an included tool and guide. Place it anywhere you'd like, punch the hole, wait, retrieve, then mail it in and get your picture emailed back for less or snail mailed back for more. Does such a kit already exist?
It's called a pinhole camera.
My fathers former student did something similar. We have two of his originals in the living room and they're some of my favourite photographs out there
Hearing a CC being called beer hurt a little bit
Did a project of this in my high school photography class, making a camera obscure out of a Pringles can. It was really cool and really drove home *how* cameras work, which I think every aspiring photographer should know
Your camera can do longer exposures than 30 seconds. Change the mode to „Bulb“ then attach a remote shutter and push the button for as long as you want. Alternatively, connect a shutter computer. They usually go up to an hour. For 6 month of exposure, connect a dummy battery that plugs into a USB Charger. Attach a 2.5mm audio cable to the remote shutter port and shorten the pins. The exposure is unlimited now.
I believe the upper max in bulb even with external power is around 100 hours
@@Superbus753 It probably depends on the manufacturer. but yes, there might be an upper limit. However, you can set the shutter computer to take the nect photo right away and merge them in your editing software of your choosing.
Your camera takes good pictures!
it's called a solargram, and they use photographic paper, not film, an exposure of 12 months is the norm
I have done this before for 6 months. Really hard to do but when u get the shot, it looks sick
You can hold a camera's shutter open for longer than 30" using BULB. It allows the use of a locking remote, to hold the shutter open. The issue, is having a camera running that long it would start to have failures. A pinhole camera, has no functioning parts so it can be left for long periods to expose an image without concern it will stop functioning.
The photographer is Chris Gampat. Please include credits
We actually made pinhole cameras my freshman year in high school for a photography project :)
It was very cool!
“what camera do you use???”
“beer🍺”
The houses down there chillin at the photo😊
It's a clever trick to use polaroid instant film instead of glass plate, you don't have to wait six minutes to develop the six months exposure photo.
Thats a very nice recording of the sun movement on the horizon during half a yeah period!
I once owned a Minolta "beercan" lens. It's a good lens.
in a way this is how they invented photography, and it's just amazing somebody tries it still today
Don't forget, they use film sheets with an ISO as low as like, 6. That's cinema duplication speed.
Justin Quinell has done some great things like this
Can you tell me where to get that ‘film paper’ from please? Love to try this for myself…
This was actually one of the first projects we did at photography school, build your own camera obscura and go out and shoot.
i loved making a pinhole camera in my old photography class, it was awesome.
That's madly kool🥶⚡
In the 90s a pinhole camera was one of the first projects a photography student would do.
Its actually fun we did this in art class
HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO COOL
My photography teacher had us do this as a project, and we left it for over a year. It was AWESOME
Did you cover the hole with tape and just expose it for a couple of minutes each week or something? When I did this in high school, we also just used pin-holes but we did the whole thing within one 40 minute class. I can't imagine anything happening other than the photo paper just turning jet black as soon as it hit the developing solution for anything as long as 6-12 months
@@DanielCrist As far as I am aware, we just poked the hole, placed the film inside, and let it sit for the entire time. When we got the result back, it was actually super washed out, rather than all black like we had expected. A few tweaks in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and it actually turned out halfway decent. Still couldn't make out shapes though, sadly
@@Frost_0__ sounds strange. We did ours for just a few minutes and when we put them in the developing bath the images appeared just as fast as if we had used a projector and negative strips
So cool that you can see the days when it was cloudy from the path of the sun
Now I understand why the "can" in Canon.
This guy took the 'on' out of canon
You can use dslr and shoot for longer than 30sec. Bulb is a function on almost all cameras and shooting at night or star trails you can have 30min+, no problem.
Not to mention the use of ND filters….
Pretty cool, though I'm sure the darkest ND filter + bulb mode would've been easier and would make a sharper photo.
I’m gunna try it!
I tried to do this experiment for Science class but I think you need a specific kind of photo paper for it that I wasn't able to get
people can use homemade pinhole cameras to watch a solar eclipse, the principle of it is really simple and they’re pretty cool
This is also called ‘Pinhole Photography’ for anyone interested
The cameras you use can also take longer exposure but you need an extra trigger
You didn't even mention the coolest part of the photo is that all the arched, banded lines are the daily path of the sun fom Summer (at the top) to Winter at the bottom. Clouds passing are breaks in the lines and gaps between the bands are cloudy days. You can eaven see a run of days where it appears there may have been a yellow smokey haze in the sky. What a great photograph!
Oh, and I guess you're in Australia so that would be Southern Hemisphere Summer and Winter 😄
I've heard about one that was three years long! The hole was made with a tiny laser
"Can you camera?"
"can."
There's a Canon joke somewhere in this situation. l just can't put my finger on it.
I did this in my physics class last year, made a carboard show box take a VERY good picture of my schools courtyard bench
What is the camera do you use
He uses a Sony A7III, he’s said it before
A beer can 👍
I have a canon eos r
Just use the build setting, you just need to keep the shutter button presses for long enough
Just to be clear, you do not load the film into the can in daylight.
The one i took was a year, really cool photos
Now all the drunk drivers will be saying they’re taking a photo of the night sky with their cans lol
„What camera do you use?”
„Stella Artois 😎”
I've taken pictures with an exposure time of up to 6h with an DSLR.
Yes, with intervelometer :)
@@meloney exactly 👍
@@ElektronikLabor i really need to buy one myself, just dont have the money for it even thought it's only like 2ü bucks. Its really annoying to either hold bulb or do several exposures. My Nikon D5200 can only do 9 exposures one after another until i need to click again._.
@@meloney Depends on what you are doing, an intervelometer can be a game changer 👍
but for really long exposures (>1h) a power supply is very handy
@ElektronikLabor im doing mostly Astrophotography (~100x 30 seconds since I can't do more)
And ND filter daylight long exposures. But I guess I don't need an IV for that, but I'd love one for astrophotography.
My top thing on my bucket list is an H-Alpha filter-
Guess that's a thing that's sadly way to expensive for me:(
"can you take a memorable shot?"
"Bet i CAN."
Imagine waiting to have that film developed… having no idea what it could look like in the end.
Photographer: "Boy, I wish I had one of those new Canons"
Him: "Hold my beer."
This is nitpicking, but: I thought a Sony Alpha whatever could do open shutter for an unlimited time? Like, for astrophotography etc? Even my old EOS 400d could do that.
So how was the image focused here without any lens?
Lights need be directed in some sort of way right?
I made pin hole cameras for a photography project at school also I don’t know weather he meant when developing the film or taking the photo when he mentioned it’s had to be dark because I would think that if it was taking the picture you could just change the settings.
People are forgetting that it's how oldest cameras worked. The light was to give exposure and literally a film was inside the box
You can also make a pinhole camera using a shoebox
The real " I have a can-on camera"😅