Cellphone Plus Monocular Equals Telephoto Camera Hack
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Cellphone cameras are junk, right? All those megapixels squeezed onto little sensors mean noise, and lots of it. But you know, the plastic-lensed Lomo film cameras have crappy images too, and people love them. There’s something to be said for…
Cellphone cameras are junk, right? All those megapixels squeezed onto little sensors mean noise, and lots of it. But you know, the plastic-lensed Lomo film cameras have crappy images too, and people love them. There’s something to be said for the serendipity involved in using substandard hardware: The happy accidents that result can be a lot more satisfying than a perfect, Photoshop-groomed image.
UK artist Kerrin Mansfield knows this, and hacked together a neat tiny version of the Brando iPhone Telescope we covered on Monday. The photos you see below were taken using a Nokia 6101 taped to a Chinon monocular. The results are dreamy and blurred; they’ve odd colour shifts and a rather mysterious aspect. And we love them.
Check out his full set on Flickr, along with his brief how-to photoset, also on Flickr. Next up: Mansfield plans to hook two phones up to a pair of binoculars, print the resulting images to slide film and put those slides into a home-made stereo viewer. As Mansfield himself states, “3D-tastic!”
How-to gallery [Flickr via Jan Chipchase]
Image gallery [Flickr]
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