What’s old is cool: Solarcan brings back extreme-time pinhole exposures

What’s old is cool: Solarcan brings back extreme-time pinhole exposures

At an event where the very latest bleeding-edge cameras were present – like the medium-format, image-stabilized Fujifilm GFX100 and the seamlessly stitching Ricoh Theta Z1 360 cam – one product stuck out like a sore thumb at The Photography Show: the Solarcan. 

“Some of the pro photographers are really struggling to understand that we’ve brought it back to basics,” says Sam Cornwell, who along with wife Beverley is the driving force behind this extreme-time exposure camera.

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James Artaius
Editor

James has 22 years experience as a journalist, serving as editor of Digital Camera World for 6 of them. He started working in the photography industry in 2014, product testing and shooting ad campaigns for Olympus, as well as clients like Aston Martin Racing, Elinchrom and L'Oréal. An Olympus / OM System, Canon and Hasselblad shooter, he has a wealth of knowledge on cameras of all makes – and he loves instant cameras, too.