Camera 5.3: Basic Of Light

Camera 5.3: Basic Of Light

The Setup

The reason being that the room had to be so dark, was to be able to see any other light such as a light bulb, be more visible. 

What was done to make sure that the room was completely dark was, the windows at the front of the room was covered up because on the other side of that window, there was light showing. Once that was done, we then proceeded to turn off the light.

Just A Red Light Bulb

When the red light bulb was turned on in the dark room, the nearby objects was also turning red because the light was reflecting upon it.

So because the nearby objects turned red because the red light was hitting it, what this is proving is that the light travels in any direction from a light source.  (Except down because in a light bulb, something is blocking it and preventing the light to go down.)

Single Red Light, Hole, And Screen Experiment

In this experiment, the 3 essential components were the smart board (screen), 1 hole, and light.

The thing that was capable of going through the hole was, light.

When the light was held on the top-left corner, the spot that light would appear on the screen was on the bottom right corner.

What this experiment proved about how light traveled was that, you are capable of controlling on where the light goes. I say this because, if you were to isolate the light but have only 3 holes, then that will allow the light travel through those holes only. 

Picture, Hole, And The Screen Experiment

In this experiment, the 3 essential components were the smart board (screen), 1 hole, and the picture that would show a letter.

The picture was of a letter F and since that was used, what I saw on screen behind the hole was light.

The picture was mirrored and that’s because, when the image would appear on the screen it would show the letter but upside down.

Size Of The Hole Experiment

Now we take it a bit step further and we increased the size of the hole and when doing so, the image got more blurry.

The image also got more brighter when the hole increased. 

Distance Between The Hole And The Screen Experiment 

Instead of doing an image, we did ars instead. When the screen was closest to the the hole, the amount of bars that I was able to see were about 3.

When the screen was farthest from the hole, I was able to see almost all of the bars.

Designing A Camera

Since we did these experiments, we will now be making a pinhole camera. Based on the experiments, I should be using a small hole in order to achieve the sharpest image.

Also, my camera should be able to capture everything that I want it to capture so, in order for this to happen I must put the film far back in order to have that wide-angle. 

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