Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I have a favor to ask of all the visitors to my site. I’ve been asked to show some of my pinhole photographs at a local gallery in a few months and I just can’t decide what photos to have framed and hang in the gallery. What I’d like for you to do is to have a look at the set and either send me an email or make a comment in Flickr and tell me just what ones should make the cut. I’ll post the results in a month or so so everyone has a bit of time. Thanks!
-John
This grabbed my eye today.
Camera-object designed for time-syncronized double exposures of opposing settings (180°) on one film. 2x agfa box (widely modified), wire, glass, plasic, velvet, double cable release, roll-film (modified/ without halation protection)
Looks like a nice camera mod.
[via Flickr]
zeitsynchrone photographie
(machine translated page from original German)
Ah, there is nothing quite like the thrill of hacking up an expensive digital camera and undoing what engineers spent countless hours fixing. I’m referring to the filter that cuts down the infrared wavelength light that strikes the image sensor. You see, if you don’t filter out the IR your images tend ot be washed out. Now this is fine if you just want to take the same old boring pictures that everyone else does. If you don’t, then this hack is for you. Once you have done this you can make some very cool looking photos by shooting through what to the naked eye looks to be a solid sheet of plastic. That plastic is a filter that only passes infrared light. Grass and leaves look white, dark clothing looks gray, the sky is black… The effect is stunning.
Now here is something you don’t see every day, a camera made out of a flatbed scanner. Even more cool than that is that it takes a 360 degree panoramic scan. This project write up had loads of photos and is sure to inspire more people to make cameras such as this.
[via MAKE]
PanoramaScanCam™
Sure, these cameras haven’t been made in decades but that don’t mean squat if your a camera hacker! With this simple hack you can add a cable shutter lock to this classic camera (or any mechanical camera for that matter) to let you leave the shutter open as long as you want. Perfect for photos of star trails!
Years and years ago there was this TV show called Night Flight. I’ve written about the show at least once, remembering all the new and cool things that I saw on it. Well one of the things I remember the best was a short film called ‘Gisele Kerozene‘. It stood out from the other shorts that were shown that night because it was a masterful display of live action stop moion animation. Seeing all those flying broom stick riding witches racing around a city was something I had never seen before. It’s a technique that is very hard on your actors, they have to keep jumping up and down in order to keep hovering (think yogi levitation) and the camera operator needs to be quick on the shutter to catch everyone at the apex of their jumps. It’s hard, some friends and I messed around with it years ago with my super 8 film camera. If I could find the results I’d post them. I haven’t seen ‘Gisele Kerozene’ in years and when I found it on YouTube Ijust had to tell everyone.