As you can see from the photo, I’ve had a project idea – A camera array, think radio-telescope array (like that one in the film “Contact”) only with cameras instead.
I have 3 initial concepts – 2x2 camera, 3x3 camera and 2x5 camera array, so a total of 4, 9 or 10 cameras. They would have to be spaced in such a way that their field of vision only slightly overlaps with it’s neighbouring cameras, this is so I can maximise the area that can be photographed which means when the images are stitched together they make a much larger single image without losing too much from any overlap.
Now I can see two mediums I could use – Either traditional or digital.
Traditional – Pinhole cameras using photographic paper (what you make prints from negatives on) to produce paper negatives that I would scan onto a computer at high resolution and then stitch together.
Digital – Buy some cheap used DSLR’s (same make and model) and some cheap lenses (all the same), remote triggers so I can trigger them all at the same time, then stitch together the resulting images in Lightroom.
From the research I’ve done so far, each option has its pros and cons. However, I think the digital option may actually be cheaper and require less materials (no scanner – a good one costs about the same as 2 digital cameras and lenses, developing materials, photographic paper), but I think it might be less fun.
So I’ll continue with my research but I think I will take the digital option but still look into getting a medium format film camera as well though I would still have to get a scanner.