Scrap Vintage Camera Goes Digital With Scanner Parts
Every collector ends up with items that are worthless, usually because they are broken or incomplete. When [Graindead] found a 1920s glass-plate reflex camera for pennies with plenty of missing par…
Pan And Tilt The Weatherproof Way, With Bowden Cables
Over the years there have been many designs for pan-and-tilt camera mounts suitable for single board computer cameras. Often they mount small servos for the movement, but those in turn present prob…
Retro Open Source Camera Straight From The ’90s
In our modern society, we have started to take the humble camera for granted. Perhaps because of this, trendy standalone cameras have started to take off. Unfortunately, most of the time these came…
Recording HDR Video With A Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers can be hooked up with a wide range of compatible cameras. There are a number of first party options, but you don’t have to stick with those—the…
Seeing The World Through Animal Eyes
If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you can be sure of is that we’ve all been …
Experiment With The Pi Camera The Modular Way
The various Raspberry Pi camera modules have become the default digital camera hacker’s tool, and have appeared in a huge number of designs over the past decade. They’re versatile and a…
The Tragic Demise Of The Technirama Prism-Based Anamorphic Lens
Although to the average person a camera lens is just that bit of glass you stick on the front of the camera to make stuff appear in focus, there’s a whole wide world out there of lens designs…
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