We had nine cords of wood delivered on Thursday. Thus, these days, I spend my mornings stacking firewood. I am trying to do about a cord each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afternoons, however, are for experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These photos were made by replacing the lens in my camera obscura with a slit made by placing two razor blades very close together. The slit acts similarly to a pinhole in forming an image, except that the image is stretched out along the length of the slit. I have placed the slit on the camera (with tape, nothing fancy!) at a roughly forty-five degree angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I took my experiment for a walk around the yard just to “get a feel” of what it might do,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The viewfinder of the digital camera is very dim; I can often see only a couple of the brightest spots in the scene. Thus framing is imprecise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By cranking up the ISO as high as it goes (3200 on my little Nikon 1 V1), I can get a reasonable shutter speed; 1\/4th to 1\/20 of a second. I deal with the horrible noise this causes in the computer, but since nothing is really sharp to begin with heavy noise reduction seems to work fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will be as interested as anyone else to see where this experiment leads!<\/p>\n\n\n
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