The recent discussion on pinhole video cameras reminded me of a guy i
was in contact with for a short time about two years ago. His name was
Christian Hossner and he had designed what he had called his "banana
shaped pinhole movie camera".
He sent me two pictures of the camera and a video tape containing
about 20 min of pinhole movies made with this camera.
The pictures can be found at
http://www.bingo-ev.de/~db106/pincam/index.htm
As far as I recall the camera worked like this:
The bent camera body contained a sequence of pinholes as can be seen
on the first image. Behind the pinholes there was black tape with a
single slit. This tape was attached to the reels on top and bottom of
the camera and could be spooled up and down moving the slit from one
pinhole to the next. Behind the tape there was a piece of 35 mm film.
By spooling the tape with constant speed and simultaneously tilting
the camera, so that always the pinhole which was passed by the slit
was aiming at the object, he got a short movie. Repeating this many
times and attaching the film pieces to another he made pinhole movies
up to 10 min long.
I regret that I have neither the necessary equipment nor the right to
put the movies on my website, but I thought that the readers of this
list might be interested in this - as I think - unique design.
Does someone know of other non-video pinhole movie cameras ?
Dieter
-- Dieter's Lochkamera Seite: http://www.bingo-ev.de/~db106/index.htm Lochkamera-FAQ: http://www.bingo-ev.de/~db106/faq.htmReceived on Mon Oct 9 21:29:22 2000
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