solargraphy pinhole camera blown up by bomb squad - yet again

[TheToadMen]

Yet another pinhole solargraphy camera was actually blown up by a bomb squad on Feb. 2nd, 2015:
[video]http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/raw-video-bomb-squad-detonates-suspicious-device/vDDYxf/[/video]

It was a coke can strapped to a bridge with a note saying: “Slow motion video. Do not move until spring."
But the gouvernement didn't take any chances and had the device blown up by a bomb squad.
But who can blame them in these days and ages?

So it appears that solargraphy in public using duct tape and beer cans isn't possible anymore due to fear of terrorist attacks ...
I'm gonna build me a simple birdhouse as a solargraphy camera instead and hang it in my backyard.

BTW: here is the original story with some more videos.

 

[AgX]

I know of speed cameras being destroyed too... Cameras have a hard life...

 

[AgX]

Back to pinhole cameras: look for an apt location on private property and ask the owner for permission.

Hanging devices at bridges or crowed places is not the best idea anyway.
(Which makes me think of that thread about using gun-like lenses/camera in public, being a similar issue:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists))

 

[paul_c5x4]

It was a coke can strapped to a bridge

In the words of one reporter on the scene, it was "tubed shaped, well I guess a tube" :confused:

 

[snapguy]

These days, one has to use one's head while everyone else is losing theirs. I recently saw an old ad for a Russian made camera that came with a gunstock and a telephoto lens. I wondererd how long a person would last in an urban setting with one of those in hand. Times change and who says they are for the better?

 

[gone]

There's some beautiful images here using such a camera, and some examples of the duct tape and tube variety. I never even heard of such a thing, so already this morning I've learned two things (the second being that one has to be very careful what one says to the wife early in the morning as she heads out to work when not fully awake. Jeez!).

The birdhouse is a great idea, unless you're a bird looking for a home of course. You might expect some trouble on that end, unless you like extreme close ups of angry birds that can't get in there. I looked at some of the homemade cameras shown here, and for sure I would have thought they were a bomb even decades ago. NOT good design for such a thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pin...ional%2FSolargraphy%2FSolargraphy.htm;692;407

 

[NedL]

I've never put one in a city or near where anyone lives. Hopefully nobody thinks the terrorists want to blow up rural fences or remote tree limbs.

But I'm actually going to bring all mine in over the next couple months and I'm not going to replace them until I figure out how to drain condensation away without letting bugs in. Sometimes they are full of water up to the pinhole when I pick them up. Also someone here at APUG had a good idea and I'm going to rig some kind of folding pole so that I can put them up on the side of a tree above where curious hikers can reach.

 

[Joe VanCleave]

Well, I suppose I'm going to have to reconsider the idea about the ammo box solarography camera.

~Joe

 

[480sparky]

......... Also someone here at APUG had a good idea and I'm going to rig some kind of folding pole so that I can put them up on the side of a tree above where curious hikers can reach.

LSD.

 

[gleaf]

Disguise it as a bale of marijuana and they will guard it for you.

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

To be fair to the bomb squad... it was an Image Exposing Device.

 

[summicron1]

Well, I suppose I'm going to have to reconsider the idea about the ammo box solarography camera.

~Joe

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