How cool is this? You can make your own paper Polaroid camera. Neat, eh? Too bad you can’t take pictures with it, or can you…
Category: Photography
THAAD Missile Launch Out of White Sands
This morning I spotted the vapor trail from a missile launch from White Sands New Mexico. The launch was part of a test for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system being tested by the US Army. For more information on viewing these launches check out the Space Archive web site. Brian does a bang up job at alerting people of these spectacular events.
USB Mod for the CVS Camcorder
I’m right in the middle of a video project involving a few of the CVS camcorders and I happened upon this clever little hack. It adds a USB B connector to the camera. I think I’ll be doing something like this myself, as well as extending the controls.
Shooting Phoenix
Today was the first photo outing of the four white walls photography group. We all met up in beautiful downtown Phoenix at 6:00 am today to go take photos of all the old buildings that won’t be around much longer. Turns out all the old warehouse and art gallery spaces down there will bring big bucks when sold to people that want to build parking lots, sports bars (that’s so 90’s) and Starbucks. Anyhow, here are my photos and here are the photos from the group. I’m looking forward to the next event, whatever that may be.
Book Pinhole Camera
I spotted this while doing my daily Flickr scan. Take a book, carve out a space inside of it, add film and you have a pinhole camera. Very covert, very James Bond, very cool.
DIY Film Emulsion
It’s practical chemistry time folks. With a few moderately easy to obtain chemicals (Gelatin, potassium bromide, potassium iodide, and silver nitrate) you can create your very own glass plate films. These would be used in a medium format camera or even a pinhole camera (if you can stand long exposure times).
You can find more information on alternative photographic processing from these books:
Silver Gelatin: A User’s Guide to Liquid Photographic Emulsion
Historic Photographic Processes
Or from these links:
Alternative and Historical Process Links
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