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Photos taken inside musical instruments
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#52Many more fantastic photos at his website: https://www.charlesbrooks.info/
Did you read the very last sentence of the article?
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#54The violins looks like the lower deck of a galleon. cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory#/media/File:Victor...
As the son of a mariner who was born a few miles from HSM Victory, I feel honour bond to point out that HMS Victory is not techically a galleon.
Honour bound is the best kind of bound.
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#56The amount of modal popups this website displays made me abandon the site. Such an annoying UX.
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#57I wonder if he would have been better off making a device to hold a small mirror steady and used a telephoto lens pointed at it from one of the f holes. It says he had a 5 mm hole to work with. That would pass an 8 gauge wire with plenty of room to maneuver. Mount a mirror to the end, thread a two or three foot wire through the hole from the inside out, clamp it to a surface the instrument is sitting in to keep it fr…
It's an interesting idea - and I have played with using mirrors. But I run into a few problems:
Most mirrors will actually show a faint double image due to the silver being behind the glass. This becomes more pronounced if you're shooting at a steep angle. Single surface mirrors are pricy, and finding one that could slip through the f-holes of a violin is a challenge.
Also - if you're outside and pointing in, you're running into some similar issues - the f-holes are simply too thin to telephoto through without them blocking image at least partially - and then you're no longer shooting wide, so you wont see much of the instrument in the reflection anyway.
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#581000+ points and only 55 comments. That's some kind of record low ratio.
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#59I want to live in a violin
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#60But these are 100% static objects - why not just use a pinhole camera (= ~infinite sharpness) and just expose the picture long enough to counter the not extremely small aperture. Take even more exposures and average them to get rid of noise.