Pinhole

Jul 9, 2010     1 Comment     Posted in: Blog

I had lunch with my boy today… In ‘n’ Out… yum. He reminded me about the pinhole camera he made for me. It had been awhile since I had used it, so I when I got home I decided to try a few shots to see what I could get. I think I need a bit more work, but it sure is fun.

“Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature such as these? What tongue will it be that can unfold so great a wonder? Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discourse to the considering of divine things. Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of every part of the universe are contracted to a point. O what a point is so marvelous!”

~ Leonardo Da Vinci on the “Camera Obscura” (Dark Room), or what we today call the pinhole camera.

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