Here's the home page, click on "The Drinking Straw camera" to see the 6 images.
http://www.andrebaumunk.de/e/index2.htm Pam Scott Sellers wrote: > > On Monday, April 09, 2001, Mike Vande Bunt wrote: > > > The Polaroid backs use what is called an "image plate" which is thousands of > > optical fibers fused together in a parallel arrangement. An image that is > > focused on one side of the plate is transmitted intact (minus a slight > > amount > > of brightness) to the other side of the plate. The technology was first > > developed for use in "night vision" scopes. So, yes, fiber optic "cable" IS > > used in 35mm Polaroid backs, but it's one solid piece fused ou of thousands > > of individual strands of glass. > > > > That said, a single optic fiber should be able to serve as a pinhole. > > Somewhere on the web are images (portraits IIRC) made using an array > of drinking straws that (I think) functions like the fiber optic > device you describe. The bundle of straws is sized to match the film > medium 1:1, and carefully laid up to keep the "pixels" in order. Each > straw gathers the light from one very narrow angle of view, and > transmits that light to it's own private bit of film. Unlike pinhole > (and lens photography), there is no flip-flopping of the image. Also, > the image isn't enlarged or reduced (unless the straws/fibers were to > get bigger or smaller from end to end). Interesting stuff to > conceive. > > -- > Scott Sellers > mailto:[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.p at ???????/discussion/ -- Pamela G. Niedermayer Pinehill Softworks Inc. 600 W. 28th St., Suite 103 Austin, TX 78705 512-236-1677 http://www.pinehill.com
