Fun Photography
There are a few fun cameras that I recently came across that you’ll enjoy. The Lomography Spinner 360º is the only one you can actually purchase. However, the other 3 are interesting concepts I’d love to get my hands on one day. Enjoy, and if anyone gets or has the Lomography Spinner 360º I’d love to see some photos you’ve taken with it.
The Lomography Spinner 360º boasts it’s,
“Quite literally the most freewheeling 360° panoramic camera in the universe!”
Simply pull and release the cord and and the camera literally spins a full 360º snapping everything that’s around you. Fun! I think I’m going use this to take a photo of our office at Hardly Square. The photographs are 4 times longer than a conventional landscape pictures too.
Here are some other features:
- Uses standard 35mm film that can be processed anywhere
- Creates up to 8 full 360° panoramas on a 36-exposure film
- Rubber band drive + fully manual controls (no batteries required)
- Manual long exposures
- Sunny/cloudy aperture settings
- Tripod mount
I love the simplistic design of this camera. The Holga D is a digital camera (concept) fashioned after the famous analog toy camera the Holga. Even though it’s a digital camera, it still has delayed gratification. That’s because the design doesn’t have a display. You have to wait until you download your pictures to see them. Go to the Holga D website to see the proposed features. They did an excellent job designing the info graphics. I really hope they make this one.
Seems like cameras without displays are in style these days. The Nadia is another camera (concept) without a display of the subject matter. Instead, it gives you a judgement of the aesthetic quality of your photograph’s framing. It does this with feedback as a percentage rating. It’s kinda scary that devices could be able to think creatively and judge beauty. And if this does happen is it going to change our ideas on the aesthetics of artistic beauty?
4th – Buttons
Buttons is a camera that’s a networked object. This camera does have a display, but this time it’s lacking optical elements. The camera doesn’t focus on the subject. It memorizes the time and continuously searches the web for photographs taken at the very same time. It then displays a photo that was taken at the same moment you pushed the button.
If you’ve found any other cameras out there on the interwebs that you found interesting please share. I’d love to see what you found.
Joe Engle says:
July 30th, 2010
Superheadz has been putting out some fun cameras as of late.
I just started using the blackbird, fly, a plastic TLR camera and the results have been fabulous, especially with the Lomo color splash flash on double exposures. And from the looks of it, they aren’t even making the yellow front one that I have anymore.
http://blackbirdflycamera.com/
But what I really want right now is the digi-video camera they put out, which doesn’t even do sound recording, but gets some really dreamy movies.
http://www.superheadz.com/digi2/index.php?lang#ytplayer
PJSullivan says:
July 30th, 2010
Thanks for sharing your finds Joe. That digi-video camera is awesome. It’s like a Hipstamatic video camera or something. I just read your blog article on your alternative film to digital process. Great read: http://bit.ly/a0PojZ
Dan says:
July 30th, 2010
How do you get those Lomography Spinner 360º photos developed? Do you need your own dark room?
PJSullivan says:
July 30th, 2010
Dan: You won’t need your own dark room. Just ask the developer to develop your film and then hand it back to you without cutting it.
http://microsites.lomography.com/spinner-360/how-to/develop
Joe Engle says:
August 2nd, 2010
I have to do that with the TLR when I shoot without any framing on the film. Exposes all the way to the edges of the film in segments about 3-4″ long. Trying to figure out how far to wind the film after shooting is a bit of a guess, so there usually ends up being quite a few double exposure areas, and a few areas where there’s nothing (which is where I cut it when I get the film).