Project 2: Building a pinhole camera
In this project, I constructed a basic pinhole camera in accordance to the instructions provided on the project page. It seems to work, more or less. I chose pinhole sizes of .5 mm (as calculated from the equation given), 1 mm, and 2mm.
Three scenes
The 0.5mm pinhole tended to produce the sharpest images, most likely since it most closely approximated the theoretical zero-diameter pinhole. The images from the 2mm pinhole were noticeably more blurry than the images from the other two pinholes, as the grater diameter allowed for more scattered light to arrive at each point on the image surface. However, the 0.5mm pinhole was also slightly more unwieldy to work with, it required the longest exposures (some were even longer than 30s.)
Four other scenes
Since the 0.5mm produced the sharpest images, generally speaking, I used it to capture a few other images. A couple of the images demonstrate some interesting long-exposure effects.
The camera model
