Mar - 8th
Lunchtime, Aiptek Pencam SD
Posted at 7:00 pm | Filed Under art, digital, pencam, tinycam
Playing around with a $20 Aiptek Pencam SD, a poor-man’s Digital Harinezumi. I shot some video this afternoon and am looking forward to playing with video editing tools. All of my creative work has been still photography, and I’ve never took a swag at video until now.
Aiptek uses the SP44 video codec, not something that [...]
Mar - 7th
Disposable Film Festival – filmmaking workshop TODAY!
Posted at 11:23 am | Filed Under art, camera phone, digital, pencam, tinycam, tinycams
The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices. With people everywhere gaining access to these devices, we [...]
Mar - 4th
Aiptek Pencam SD — Digital Holga, or a better Digital Harinezumi?
Posted at 6:32 pm | Filed Under art, film, pencam, plastic
I took this picture with a Aiptek Pencam SD, a camera I liken to the Digital Harinezumi. The Pencam SD is roughly the same size, and does 1280×960 max resolution (still), and 6-8 frames per second at 640×480. Like the Digital Harinezumi, the Pencam SD has 64MB of built-in memory and an SD card slot. [...]
Feb - 24th
Blink
Posted at 6:46 pm | Filed Under art, digital, tinycam
Taken with a Sipix Stylecam Blink. The Blink is one of the cameras I think comes closest to the “Digital Holga” that people are searching for. Plastic lens? Check. Soft focus? Check. Vignetting? Check.
It’s got some quirks – when you take out the battery, the pictures are gone. The camera eats batteries as soon as [...]
Feb - 23rd
FUN NATURE FDC01, A New “Digital Holga”?
Posted at 9:54 pm | Filed Under art, digital, film
FUZZYEYEBALLS wrote about the “Fun Nature FDC01″, a new toy digital camera. While other camera manufacturers have been beating each other to market with higher megapixel sensors and features, the FDC01 stands apart. It’s a 1.9 megapixel camera with 64 MB on-board memory, SD expansion slot, rechargeable battery, 8 fps “movie” mode, and 3 photo [...]
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