Photographer and creative tinkerer Alireza Rostami is back at it. After turning a broken computer into a working camera in August, he embarked on a new DIY project: making a working flash that you can wear like a wristwatch.
The franken-flash was built using parts from a broken point-and-shoot, and the strap from an actual […]. petapixel.com
Hobbyist photographer and Twitter product designer Paul Stamatiou recently decided that his 2-year-old iMac was no longer up to the task of handling his high-res RAW photos in Lightroom. Instead of shelling out $13,199 or $7,128 for a fully loaded iMac Pro or Mac Pro, Stamatiou decided to switch to Windows and build himself a […] petapixel.com »
2018-01-24 22:19
Danish designer Milan Madge recently built himself a gigantic Leica III rangefinder camera out of LEGO blocks. The level of detail is impressive. Here’s a photo of what the Leica IIIa looks like in real life: The Leica IIIa. petapixel.com »
2017-10-13 22:33
Inspired by a costume idea we first saw way back in 2011, photographer Bryan Troll turned himself into a fully-functional Nikon DSLR this Halloween. His ‘costume’ has a working flash, takes pictures, and even displays the results on an LCD! Like we said, this isn’t a new idea—last year, we covered 4 of these, and […] petapixel.com »
2016-10-31 21:15
The Tessina is a vintage Swiss camera that was created by an Austraian chemical engineer named Rudolph Steineck and introduced in 1957 in Switzerland. What’s neat about the camera was that one of the accessories was a special wrist bracket that allowed you to wear the camera on your wrist like a watch. Redditor catchoooo […]