Unit 6CD: Project Implementation and Review
Introduction:
Welcome to my report of my investigative project and review of my pinhole camera lens results.
My original outlined aims, outlined in part A, for this project were:
• Create my own pinhole camera lenses
• Use different lenses on a pinhole camera
• Compare different lenses against each other
• Analyse the lenses and my results
• Compare the lenses I used against each other
• Find the best clarity and visual look
and my hypothesis in aim A was as stated:
“
• Since my project is based on the lenses for a pinhole camera, I don't actually have to make
my own pinhole camera, I can just use a camera that I can borrow from the media
department in my college.
• I will make my own DIY lenses and see what affects the image clarity and visual effect of the
picture.
• If I have time, I could create my own pinhole camera or produce the effect using a dark room
in the art block, known as camera obscura. This will still use my lenses and I can take a photo
of the effect from within. As long as I have a dark room, a hole, and light I can make my
project work. In this case, in order for an image to be seen, the room or box where the
image is to be projected must be entirely dark except for the small pinhole opening.
• The goal for this experiment is to investigate how different lenses affect this pinhole camera
effect.
“
So, what did I accomplish from my very first set of goals? As I'll talk about in the coming sections,
despite facing multiple setbacks and limitations, I was able to create my own pinhole camera lenses,
use different lenses on a pinhole camera but NOT use them in my final results due to an issue I was
having with my cameras. I was able to test and compare my own different DIY lenses against
eachother, but only when I was testing the lenses before taking my final shots because of the
camera issues I'll explain later in this report. I was not able to test any outside lenses that I didn't
make myself, which would have definitely been an interesting comparison- but I also don't think it
would have worked well because of the camera lenses. In my testing I was able to find the best
clarity and visual look of the lenses I made, but due to the camera problems I was facing, I didn’t get
to take many pictures of the different lenses.
In my project proposal I had stated that:
“There are various resources I can use in college to help me with my project, I can borrow a camera
to use for my project from the media department and in the art department they have a dark room
that could prove to be very important in testing the lenses.”
,I was correct that I could use the college to help me with the resources I didn't have and thought I
needed to complete my project and they were very helpful, even if they needed some convincing. I
only ended up borrowing a digital camera, SD card, scissors, a tac pin from my college and a single
piece of tape from a classmate to complete my project.
In my hypothesis, I had overestimated the necessity of the dark room. I didn’t end up using the dark
room as it proved unnecessary for my project and it would have been a limitation in the shots I was
able to take.
My hypothesis that I was going to use the digital camera to take my shots because I assumed it
would produce the best and most consistent results was entirely wrong
I didn’t end up using the digital camera because the final shot that the camera took was vastly
different from the output displayed on the screen when taking the photo as well as the digital zoom
not zooming the shot taken, only the preview
Even though I didn’t end up using the digital camera, not having an SD card prevented me from
undertaking my practical for multiple days because I thought that using the digital camera would be
the best option for my practical
On Tuesday I organized all the materials I needed for my project; a cardboard box, a pringles can
with a lid, an empty canned drink, and the following day, Wednesday, I brought in all of the items. I
borrowed scissors and a tac pin from my teacher to use to cut the pringles can to the desired length
and cut a chunk out of the drink can and then I used the tac pin to make the pin holes in drink can
slice and the end of the pringles can.
Me, my cut-up drink can and the slice of aluminium I took out of it for pinhole lens I made:
,and here’s the actually good pringles can pinhole lens I created:
,
Introduction:
Welcome to my report of my investigative project and review of my pinhole camera lens results.
My original outlined aims, outlined in part A, for this project were:
• Create my own pinhole camera lenses
• Use different lenses on a pinhole camera
• Compare different lenses against each other
• Analyse the lenses and my results
• Compare the lenses I used against each other
• Find the best clarity and visual look
and my hypothesis in aim A was as stated:
“
• Since my project is based on the lenses for a pinhole camera, I don't actually have to make
my own pinhole camera, I can just use a camera that I can borrow from the media
department in my college.
• I will make my own DIY lenses and see what affects the image clarity and visual effect of the
picture.
• If I have time, I could create my own pinhole camera or produce the effect using a dark room
in the art block, known as camera obscura. This will still use my lenses and I can take a photo
of the effect from within. As long as I have a dark room, a hole, and light I can make my
project work. In this case, in order for an image to be seen, the room or box where the
image is to be projected must be entirely dark except for the small pinhole opening.
• The goal for this experiment is to investigate how different lenses affect this pinhole camera
effect.
“
So, what did I accomplish from my very first set of goals? As I'll talk about in the coming sections,
despite facing multiple setbacks and limitations, I was able to create my own pinhole camera lenses,
use different lenses on a pinhole camera but NOT use them in my final results due to an issue I was
having with my cameras. I was able to test and compare my own different DIY lenses against
eachother, but only when I was testing the lenses before taking my final shots because of the
camera issues I'll explain later in this report. I was not able to test any outside lenses that I didn't
make myself, which would have definitely been an interesting comparison- but I also don't think it
would have worked well because of the camera lenses. In my testing I was able to find the best
clarity and visual look of the lenses I made, but due to the camera problems I was facing, I didn’t get
to take many pictures of the different lenses.
In my project proposal I had stated that:
“There are various resources I can use in college to help me with my project, I can borrow a camera
to use for my project from the media department and in the art department they have a dark room
that could prove to be very important in testing the lenses.”
,I was correct that I could use the college to help me with the resources I didn't have and thought I
needed to complete my project and they were very helpful, even if they needed some convincing. I
only ended up borrowing a digital camera, SD card, scissors, a tac pin from my college and a single
piece of tape from a classmate to complete my project.
In my hypothesis, I had overestimated the necessity of the dark room. I didn’t end up using the dark
room as it proved unnecessary for my project and it would have been a limitation in the shots I was
able to take.
My hypothesis that I was going to use the digital camera to take my shots because I assumed it
would produce the best and most consistent results was entirely wrong
I didn’t end up using the digital camera because the final shot that the camera took was vastly
different from the output displayed on the screen when taking the photo as well as the digital zoom
not zooming the shot taken, only the preview
Even though I didn’t end up using the digital camera, not having an SD card prevented me from
undertaking my practical for multiple days because I thought that using the digital camera would be
the best option for my practical
On Tuesday I organized all the materials I needed for my project; a cardboard box, a pringles can
with a lid, an empty canned drink, and the following day, Wednesday, I brought in all of the items. I
borrowed scissors and a tac pin from my teacher to use to cut the pringles can to the desired length
and cut a chunk out of the drink can and then I used the tac pin to make the pin holes in drink can
slice and the end of the pringles can.
Me, my cut-up drink can and the slice of aluminium I took out of it for pinhole lens I made:
,and here’s the actually good pringles can pinhole lens I created:
,
