Room Pinhole Camera

May 22, 2021

I noticed yesterday evening that my room had become a pinhole camera.

The sun shining through the blinds was projecting an unmistakable circle on the opposite wall. I knew that this was an actual projection of the sun, rather than just a diffuse circle of light.

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I watched it for a while, then shot this time-lapse of the sun setting through some branches of the tree. Because of how the pinhole camera works, the sun appears to be going up, but that is just because a lens or pinhole will flip the image.

Here is an image looking out the window at the sun behind the tree.

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And looking back from where the image was projected, back toward the window.

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