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Jumbo camera taking world's largest photo

Started by Lord_of_the_Dense, June 14, 2006, 05:26:47 PM

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IRVINE, Calif. - Walk into the massive air hangar and the first thing you notice is an oppressive darkness broken only by a tiny beam of light from a gumball-sized hole in the wall.
 
Then, slowly, an upside-down image emerges on the opposite wall that is startling in its clarity — a dilapidated air traffic control tower, an overgrown runway and palm trees clustered amid rolling hills.

Once home to roaring fighter jets, this decommissioned Marine Corps hangar is now the world's largest camera poised to take the world's largest picture.

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Kewl - same principle as the camera obscurer.  It never ceases to amaze me how you can get a pinhole in a box side to project the world upside down on the opposite side of the box, and with absolute clarity.  Did you know that this method was first used to prove that light 'originated' from objects, rather than being beamed out from the eyes and bounced back?  Before this experiment was performed, it was assumed that we all saw by projecting light from our eyes, which bounced off whatever we looked at and came back to give us an image of it - how bizarre, eh?  So working on that theory - if nobody was looking at something, it would plunge that object into darkness :grin:  Makes you wonder - they must have thought night was caused by people closing their eyes to go to sleep :scratch:

In the experiment, the scientist sat inside a camera obscurer and got somebody on the outside to turn an oil lamp on and off.  When the changing state of the light was observed on the projection, without the scientist directly looking at the light, the theory was disproved.   :idiot:
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