CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: a wonky anna maria horner string quilt by filminthefridge, pixie nephews by Mamasha_Gent, bow by lucinda reemi turandot, and crochet big octopus legs by micanenco.
Photography
Quantum dot image sensors set to change camera industry
Those of you who, like me, just recently managed to score the digital camera of your dreams will be very excited to learn that it’s possibly going to be obsolete real soon. Based on technology developed by University of Toronto professor Ted Sargent, who is now CTO at start-up InVisage, the new image sensor uses a matrix of nanoparticles embedded in a polymer film which can be simply “painted” onto the top of a low-cost wafer at room temperature. If the hype is to be believed, the new sensor offers four times the sensitivity of conventional CMOS image sensors at a dramatically reduced cost per chip. [Thanks, Glen!]
Laptopograms: Contact prints from your computer
This looks like fun- this maker has been using the light from a laptop screen to expose photographic paper, creating what they call a laptopogram:
Three-roll pinhole camera
This excellent pinhole camera exposes three rolls of film simultaneously. The work of Steven Monteau of Bordeaux, France, it’s a pretty slick project, using felt-tipped pens to advance the rolls and marker tops as the knobs. Even better, Monteau provides a detailed tutorial on how to make your own. [Thanks, udi!]
DSLR equipped RC helicopter
Some of the newer DLSR cameras will shoot surprisingly good HD video. Put one on a RC helicopter and you’ve got one exciting toy that can that can take a professional quality shot at a fraction of the cost. Texas-based videographer, maker, and RC pilot Eric Austin has done just that by rigging a Canon 7D to a hobbyist RC helicopter. The resulting shots are amazing.
Fisheye lens from decapitated soda can
San Francisco-based camera hacker extraordinaire Bhautik Joshi just posted a how-to on making your own fisheye lens using a soda can. From his site: Built using a fisheye peephole as the main lens element and a decapitated soda can as the lens body (!), this attaches directly to my SLR camera. For well under US$20, […]
Pinhole camera small enough to fit on head of pin
I’m digging this functional mini lomo camera by Francesco Capponi.
