Installing a SOLARCAN: I'll Be Taking a Single Photo of the Sun for next 6 Months!

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  • Опубликовано: 12 янв 2025

Комментарии • 18

  • @lancealbon46
    @lancealbon46 6 месяцев назад +1

    You live in a beautiful place. Similar to where we live here in Wellington New Zealand with water and mountain views. I look forward to seeing your results, and I’m now doing a search to see if I too can get my hands on one of these : )

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  6 месяцев назад +4

      Thank you, yes I absolutely love it here in Switzerland! I had to order mine directly from the UK (got mine from first light optics - I think they ship everywhere) but also the company itself ships international I think! Worst case you can always build one - I didn’t try that for reasons that are obvious from this video 😂

    • @lancealbon46
      @lancealbon46 6 месяцев назад

      @@the_space_koala … hahaha

  • @Jcorban08
    @Jcorban08 4 месяца назад

    How fun! Hopefully the soda can still lives 😂
    Reminds me of an assignment in art school - making and designing a pinhole camera using 4x5 sheet of negative film (I think). Making it light-proof was a lot of trial and error - mostly error hehehe

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  4 месяца назад +1

      I also made a pinhole camera back in school. Needless to say it was a failure 😁 it’s very easy with this beercan, though a lot less entertaining too

  • @KingLoopie1
    @KingLoopie1 4 месяца назад

    What a view! Cool experiment!
    To be honest, on the thumbnail you looked like you were gonna shotgun a beer. I clicked the link pretty darn quick... 😂

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  4 месяца назад +1

      @@KingLoopie1 in my desperation to make this thing work I seem to have created the perfect clickbait?! 😂

  • @steadifreddy2187
    @steadifreddy2187 5 месяцев назад

    this thumbnail :D you could also hotglue it to a board but these insane cable ties will do just fine i guess

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  4 месяца назад

      Eheheh you gotta screen shot the best moment! 😁 I guess the hot glue would’ve worked better

  • @michael.a.covington
    @michael.a.covington 4 месяца назад

    Who's going to develop your photo paper? I have a working darkroom but it hasn't been used for 8 years, otherwise I'd volunteer...

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  4 месяца назад

      their instructions are just to scan it real quick before it's ruined :D I didn't think about actually developing it

    • @michael.a.covington
      @michael.a.covington 4 месяца назад

      @@the_space_koala OK, all photographic paper darkens in light (without development) if exposed a really large amount of sunlight. Maybe this will do that. Or it may be what is called "printing-out paper," which I didn't think was still made -- paper that darkens when exposed to a reasonable amount of light without development. Photographers in the 1940s used that for proofs, so the proofs could not be kept and used by the customer. Curious... Almost all pinhole photography is done with ordinary enlarging paper, which is then developed and fixed.

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  4 месяца назад

      @@michael.a.covington yes I’m pretty sure it will be gone shortly after opening the box. It’s regular photo paper. I didn’t consider developing, I don’t have access to a darkroom (I used to do some manual film development and enlargement but that was years ago)

    • @michael.a.covington
      @michael.a.covington 4 месяца назад

      You can almost certainly make it permanent with just fixer (not developer), in ordinary room light, followed by the usual washing.

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  4 месяца назад

      @@michael.a.covington thanks for the tip!

  • @No_More_Wrath
    @No_More_Wrath Месяц назад

    Not what I was expecting. 🤓

    • @the_space_koala
      @the_space_koala  Месяц назад +1

      it's only like 3 weeks left until it's ready!