Re: Digital pinhole

Murray Leshner wrote:
> Ana Maria Schultze <anita@arte-educar.art.br> wrote:
> Bought a small digital camera, with very low resolution. It's a
> photographic and a webcam.
>
> How do I turn it to a pinhole camera? Any tips?
>
> Maybe someone else has done it, but I have tried 2 webcams (broke an
> internal switch on one, couldn't get 2nd to work with WIndows XP )
> and a 2 MP camera but I then realized I probably have some exposure
> control issues to think about.

The amateur astronomy folks have done a lot of things with webcams.
Here are a couple of links:

Astrocam
<http://www.astrocam.org/english.htm>

QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group
<http://www.qcuiag.co.uk/>

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