Former Marine hangar being turned into 'camera' to take world's largest photo

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/061506/nat_061506048.shtml ^ | Thursday, June 15, 2006 | Associated Press

[CholeraJoe]

While we are the youngest service, the Air Force typically has the best facilities and sends its officers out to fight. If you need close air support, a bomb dropped down an air shaft, a downed pilot plucked from behind enemy lines or a load of troops dropped, call us at the air-conditioned officers' club. Someone is bound to be sober enough to fly.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Are the blimp hangers in the South SF bay (I think at the NASA/JPL facility) and in NJ still there?

[So Cal Rocket]

Are the blimp hangers in the South SF bay (I think at the NASA/JPL facility) and in NJ still there?

I don't know... I only know that the ones in Tustin are still there because I can see them right now out my window at work.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeppers.

My middle (younger) brother went USAF after touring a couple of USN O-clubs when my older brother and I were both in subs.

Now, Chris, my youngest brother, went USN Annapolis regardless of O-clubs, but his girl-friend was in Annapolis already, so he didn't want to leave town.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[G]et a pen laser and a tripod. Aim the laser at the pinhole for a few minutes.

Assuming that the laser is set up in the field of view of the camera, one would expect the laser to be imaged as the diffraction pattern of the pinhole; essentially a hole the size of the "pinhole" on the photograph. It would create a blemish the size of the optical resolution of the instument. (The plate is well within the near field of the pinhole.)

I've set up camera obscura to view partial eclipses at home and in a conference at work. People are impressed.