Five 640×480 firewire cameras arranged to provide a 3000×480 image for a 360 degree view of the surrounding area. Looks like a cool project, I hope something like this comes on the market, at an affordable price of course, soon.
[via Gizmodo]
Category: Photography
Cardboard Reflex Camera
Who says you need to buy a Nikon or a Canon or even a Minolta to own an SLR when you have cardboard and paste handy? Sure, it may lack a few creature comforts like shutter speeds faster than bulb or a F stops on the lens, but you don’t need those to take a nice photograph. I like the orange curved lever that is used to pull up the mirror before you open the shutter, very clever.
Uêba – Cardboard Reflex Camera
A DIY Photoslave
A device like this is so amazingly handy to have in your photo bag. With a few of these attached to a few flashes salvaged from disposable cameras you can totally light up whatever your photographing. I think I’ll try that and see what sort of effects I can get with this. I’m thinking four plus point lighting on a sub shoe string budget can be achieved with this.
This is a project to make a Slave Trigger for an electronic strobe unit. The Slave Trigger is plugged into the sync cord (PC Type) from a strobe unit and will flash the strobe when it "sees" another flash go off. An older 1970’s Epoxy cased slave trigger (AC Plug Style) was used as a guide in developing this new version. Thanks to input from some of my web friends we now use a photocell from a $1 solar powered calculator as the photo diode. This Project uses a SCR, Capacitor, Resistor, Photo Cell, an Radio Shack Adaptor Plug, and a small plastic box. The parts were found at a local electronic surplus store and the Dollar Store.
Mount St. Helens Is Moving Up
This is a big ‘ol slab of rock that is being pushed up from inside the volcano’s crater. There is a great time laps video of it showing the distance it’s grown since last November. The rate of movement is about 1 meter a day. I wonder how high it will get before it falls over or is destroyed by another eruption.
Glide Multi Format Panoramic Camera
This camera is for you only if your very serious about photography. The GILDE 66-17 MST Super 3D is simply amazing. It shoots on 120/220 film (kept in a removable magazine for easy ISO swapping mid roll) in formats from the traditional square 6×6 to the mega panoramic 6×23. It will even accept a variety of stereo lens boards. And if that isn’t enough, it will also do tilt shifting to correct perspective distortions. This is some serious camera hardware! A base camera will set you back about 4,000 Euros, fully loaded runs around 20,000 Euros. To me, if I had the money, it would be a perfectly fantastic camera. It’s got all the bells and chrome you could want in a medium format camera.
Komamura Horseman 3D Film Camera
Oh man, this is sweet! Twin 38mm f 2.8 lenses, shutter speeds from bulb, 8 seconds to 1/1000, rear curtain shutter flash sync, and 20 exposures on a roll of 36 are just a few very cool features of this camera. It even has an LCD on the back to give a read out on your settings. Oh yeah, it even spots full manual or AE shooting. And to top it all off you get a high quality stereo viewer included with your camera. With a price of $5000USD will keep this beauty out of the hands of all but the most dedicated stereo enthusiasts when it comes out later this year. I one day hope to see an affordable stereo camera with quality lenses on the market again, my 1953 Kodak stereo camera could do with an upgrade.
[via Retro Thing and Gear Live]