shooting bolex w/o lens, anything w/o lens

[Grainy]

hi there - another newbie question! What happens if you remove the lens from your Bolex and just shoot into the air, so to speak? Is there an image?
thanks!
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[element80]

Negative...you might be able to notice movement in the form of slight tonal changes, but mostly, it'll just be a lot of nothing...I actually heard a story about someone doing some airiel stuff with a high end video camera, when suddenly the picture just went white. They would occasionally see some kind of movement, but for the most part, it was all a white blur. They landed the helicopter, and found that they no longer had their $16,000+ lens on the camera.

 

[Grainy]

Negative...you might be able to notice movement in the form of slight tonal changes, but mostly, it'll just be a lot of nothing...I actually heard a story about someone doing some airiel stuff with a high end video camera, when suddenly the picture just went white. They would occasionally see some kind of movement, but for the most part, it was all a white blur. They landed the helicopter, and found that they no longer had their $16,000+ lens on the camera.

Yowch! Interesting anecdote. Too bad it doesn't work, I guess that explains why pinhole photography is what it is.
thanks!
G

 

[element80]

well, pinhole photography works a little better, b/c it's basically a really small aperture with depth of filed enough to give enough sharpness that the image is recognizable. A lenseless camera' aperture is basically the size of the frame which makes it incredibly out of focus, so you can't tell what you're looking at.