Friday, September 21, 2007

Putting together this broken camera

We were first given the task to identify the different parts of a broken camera (of many parts). This is a photo of the box of "junk" we were given:


The small square in the middle of this photo is the equivalent of the photo paper in our pinhole cameras. It collects the image then stores it in the complex looking green shape:


This photo is piece is the equivalent of our pinhole (it is the lens):



Finally, these pieces connect to create a light-tight box:

1 comment:

DivingRhino said...

Excellent. In a digital camera the shutter is hard to find. In most (I believe, I have never found a definitive answer), but my understanding is that the sensor (the square in the first picture) just starts recording, and records for a period of time. It's more of an electronic, "start now", "end now", than a mechanical "open", "close".