The ultimate 1 camera 1 lens challenge.

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Thinking about this. Taking the one camera one lens one film challenge to the ultimate conclusion. All that and only one shot for the entire year. So this exposure would have to last 365 days.
A slow film would be needed. A lens stopped down to f32 (or a pinhole lens). Exposure locked on T. That's the easy part. The ND filter part is the hard part. How to calculate that?
 
I'm not sure if this would be of interest, but I stumbled upon this kickstarter a while ago. It's essentially a pinhole soda can with some photo paper inside.. It makes some very interesting images and can be kept in place for months at a time.

http://solarcan.co.uk/
 
Or, something like this:

If I recall correctly, it was a long exposure, several minutes, and happens to capture one human figure getting his boot polished. Point is, any dark thing moving will disappear.

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sepiareverb said:
There’s a guy on one of the Facebook groups that does yearlong or 6 month long pinhole exposures on paper. They are really quite lovely.

https://www.facebook.com/marcin.lilla

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1679369785430781&set=p.1679369785430781&type=1&theater

And saw this too when searching for Marcin.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1291193227614690&set=p.1291193227614690&type=1&theater
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Very cool! He used paper, I'm wondering about using film.

ColSebastianMoran said:
Or, something like this:

If I recall correctly, it was a long exposure, several minutes, and happens to capture one human figure getting his boot polished. Point is, any dark thing moving will disappear.
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Such a great shot.
 
I swear I read about it yeas ago. Camera was mounted on the streetlight pole. Somewhere near Cherry Beach in Toronto.
 
Long pinhole exposure

Long pinhole exposure

Have a look at Eric Renner's Pinhole Photography. He has a table on p162 that lists exposure calculations for focal lengths from 10mm to 1000mm, with reference to F64. There is also a free Windows application called Pinhole Designer which will give an exposure table in Excel format for a given pinhole diameter/F stop, along with reciprocity for a dozen or so different films.

Cheers, Peter.
 
Some poor fellow decided to do a 1 camera, 1 lens, 1 year photo.
Some time into the exposure a concerned citizen called it in to law enforcement.
Then the bomb squad came.
It got blown up.
 
Long discontinued Fujifilm Minicopy HRII BW film with a box speed of ISO 6 would be helpful.
 
An alternative approach to the concept, while not the same thing, would be to use an intervalometer and then merge all the (365 or more) photos to one in Photoshop. I'm sure I've seen this done somewhere, but after a quick search can't find examples.

Going quite off topic, reminds me of Nicholas Nixon's project on The Brown Sisters where he photographed four sisters every year.

Sorry, now back to your regular programming :)
 
Interesting stuff! My first thought when I saw the author and title of the thread was, "There's no way he's going to be able to do it."
 
Huss said:
Very cool! He used paper, I'm wondering about using film...
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Biased against a paper negative? :D

That old ISO 6 Fuji film would be a good start, and I expect that after a year you might simply be able to wash the film and leave image. Either that or a 1 minute development with Rodinal 1:1000?

The testing would be the bear for me. Wait a year, give some guessed development time, then wait another year, etc. etc. it would be 2030 by the time I nailed my process. :eek:
 
I've exposed individual pieces of photo paper loaded into the film gate of a 35mm camera. So you could use a film camera and paper negatives.
 
This is the historic shot, Louis Daguerre, first human in a photo.
He was such a good photographer, you don't believe he chanced the man standing still for many minutes? That had to be a set up!

ColSebastianMoran said:
Or, something like this:

If I recall correctly, it was a long exposure, several minutes, and happens to capture one human figure getting his boot polished. Point is, any dark thing moving will disappear.

first-human-picture-2-015a8597e15c37910947c53b31dc1788d565954c-s900-c85.jpg
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Huss said:
Thinking about this. Taking the one camera one lens one film challenge to the ultimate conclusion. All that and only one shot for the entire year. So this exposure would have to last 365 days.
A slow film would be needed. A lens stopped down to f32 (or a pinhole lens). Exposure locked on T. That's the easy part. The ND filter part is the hard part. How to calculate that?
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If you start with an unfiltered shutter speed of 1/500 of a second, you would need 34 stops of ND filter. In fact, this actually calculates as around 1 year + 1 month, but after so much time, who's counting? :) Obviously, if you're using a slow film and an aperture of f/32, you're unlikely to have an unfiltered shutter speed of 1/500 ;), but my example was just for illustration.

As for working out reciprocity failure...!!! :eek:
 
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