This week students are building pinhole cameras and learning about exposure times. They will shoot a roll of film and develop it. They will make prints and learn how to use film in the enlargers. Pinhole photography has been around since the 5th century BC and is the oldest know form of photographic image capture. Giant pinholes called camera obscuras, translated from Latin dark chamber/room, were used to watch solar eclipses during ancient times. During the renaissance they were used to capture objects for painting or projecting murals onto walls.
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