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Title: Trash container pinhole
Post by: Volker on April 09, 2012, 09:20:26 PM

Refuse collectors from Hamburg took part in an art project.
They used a modified trash container as a pinhole camera and photographed their favourite places in the city..

(in german only – 10 images):
http://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article106160511/Kunst-aus-der-Tonne-Stadtportraets-der-Muellabfuhr.html (http://www.welt.de/regionales/hamburg/article106160511/Kunst-aus-der-Tonne-Stadtportraets-der-Muellabfuhr.html)

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: sapata on April 09, 2012, 09:53:54 PM

Great stuff!
What size are the originals?

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: jojonas~ on April 10, 2012, 01:02:25 PM

talk about candid photography :D

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: Volker on April 10, 2012, 04:27:03 PM

@sapata:
sorry, i don't know the size. i could not find more information.
Everybody (newspaper, blogs, forums,... used the same text from the press release.

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: Francois on April 10, 2012, 09:16:25 PM

Quote from: jojonas~ on April 10, 2012, 01:02:25 PM

talk about candid photography :D

Well, if you like your images to be "trashy", this is the perfect way to do it  ;D

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: astrobeck on April 10, 2012, 09:27:27 PM

These are great!
I need one of those...

I've been trying to figure out how to make a pinhole trash can camera from one of those trash bins that you step on a lever and the lid pops up.   :)
Seems a step on shutter would be very cool!   ;D

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: reuben on April 12, 2012, 10:16:03 AM

Quote from: astrobeck on April 10, 2012, 09:27:27 PM

those trash bins that you step on a lever and the lid pops up.   :)
Seems a step on shutter would be very cool!   ;D

love the idea cool!

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: Terry on April 12, 2012, 01:19:36 PM

Becky--eminently do-able.  You'd just need a hacksaw and a plate that could mask the pinhole and maybe a spring to make sure the shutter closed when you took your foot off the pedal.  And a track for the shutter to run in.  Take a couple of hours...

Or, better yet, you could make it like a movie camera shutter and have it rotate on a pin.   Lots of ways to make it work.

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: Volker on April 15, 2012, 04:25:09 PM

Finally i found some technical information:
Paper size was 106 x 80 cm, mounted on a Forex board.
To put the "holder" into the container, they used a light-tight Mercedes "Sprinter".

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: Volker on April 21, 2012, 11:46:55 AM

Now on flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetrashcamproject/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetrashcamproject/)

with new images, some technical information and in english...

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: Francois on April 21, 2012, 02:44:30 PM

Good to read... my German is rather rusty...  :-\

Title: Re: Trash container pinhole
Post by: jojonas~ on April 23, 2012, 10:53:43 AM

thanks for the link!
I particularly liked the shot with the trashman in it. pretty good, being ble to stand sp still for six minutes(!)
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5031/7089772181_e133d436fd_z.jpg)