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Taken with a Palm Clix digital camera with one third of a megapixel resolution. Models - Lucy Latem, Danny Davis.
I'm pretty sure this is the first HDR shot EVER taken with a Vistaquest. Three exposures stitched together in photoshop.
not bad for a $20 camera with no controls but the shutter button.
This shot is from a Vivatar mini digital camera, a keychain camera that holds 20 picture at a resolution of 1/3 of a megapixel. I then used the "Lomo" filter in Picasa to jazz up the color and vignetting.
Despite my best efforts the pictures still look quite grainy. But all things considered, I am amazed that anything came out at all. One time I tried scanning some 110mm negatives at 48000 dpi and they looked terrible.
If you look closely at the center of the disc, you can barely make out somebody with a camera pointing towards the middle of wheel (top have of a face with glasses, top of a camera pointed sideways, and what look like fingers holding something before - maybe a release cable?). Maybe it is the photographer who took the picture that became the picture disc? Perhaps these pictures were originally postcards which were laid on a table and photographed? (they do seem to have a generic, "stock image" quality to them) (Not the thin, dark blue lines aligning the pictures)
I haven't been able to find any information about the "camera" itself, but I do recall a couple of touristy, souvenir shops in downtown Halifax selling these in the 1990s. If anyone has more information about this particular item and who made it, please let me know!
Back of a taco trailer in San Jose, CA. Taken with Vivitar Mini Digital keychain camera - 1/3 of a megapixel.
To celebrate my 10th year on flickr, I decided to upload something a little different. It is not really a camera, but it is a souvenir/toy made to look like a camera.
The principal is similar to one of those View-Masters; you look through a little view finder and inside you have a disc containing pictures, each time you press a button the disc moves to the next picture. Except in this case you can't remove the picture disc, and the pictures themselves are very, very tiny (only 2mm by 4mm!). The disc itself is only 2.3 cm across (about the size of a quarter) contains various snap-shots of Nova Scotian landmarks including: Fort Louisburg (Cape Breton), Peggy's Cove and Light House (Nova Scotia), the Citadel Clock Tower (Halifax), Evangeline National Historic Site (Grand-Pre), Halifax Public Gardens (Halifax), and the Bluenose II schooner.
The "camera" itself it quite simple, being made entirely out of a cheap plastic (likely made in China). The advance mechanism is also very simple, consisting of only 3 parts. A rectangular piece of plastic which acts as a button, held in place by a piece of wire (acting as a spring) connected to a plastic wheel holding the picture disc. When the button is pressed the rectangular piece of plastic pushes the wheel via to plastic nubs, the piece of wire (spring) makes the rectangular piece return to its normal position after being released.
I wanted to see if it was possible to scan the tiny picture disc and recover images from it. It know that it is possible to scan View-Master reels as the images are 11mm x 11.5. However, in this case I was dealing with images that were nearly 1/15th that size. Carefully removing the picture disc from the "camera", I scanned it as a colour side at the highest resolution I could (48000 dpi). It took a little fiddling with the scanner settings to get a decent image. Admittedly, I had to adjust the brightness in Photoshop as the disc kept coming out dark for some reason.
Click here to see the picture disc!
Click here to see the size comparison to a quarter + a few images I was able to get from the disc!
VQ1015 Entry - Septiembre 2010
Animals can suffer and feel pain. They need greater protection worldwide. We are seeking this in the form of a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (UDAW) at the United Nations.
Despite my best efforts the pictures still look quite grainy. But all things considered, I am amazed that anything came out at all. One time I tried scanning some 110mm negatives at 48000 dpi and they looked terrible.
If you look closely at the center of the disc, you can barely make out somebody with a camera pointing towards the middle of wheel (top have of a face with glasses, top of a camera pointed sideways, and what look like fingers holding something before - maybe a release cable?). Maybe it is the photographer who took the picture that became the picture disc? Perhaps these pictures were originally postcards which were laid on a table and photographed? (they do seem to have a generic, "stock image" quality to them) (Not the thin, dark blue lines aligning the pictures)
I haven't been able to find any information about the "camera" itself, but I do recall a couple of touristy, souvenir shops in downtown Halifax selling these in the 1990s. If anyone has more information about this particular item and who made it, please let me know!
(Click picture to zoom in)
Click here to see the "camera"!
Click here to see the size comparison to a quarter + a few images I was able to get from the disc!
VQ1015 Entry - Julio 2011
Firmware 0906
Animals can suffer and feel pain. They need greater protection worldwide. We are seeking this in the form of a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare (UDAW) at the United Nations.
Micro Cam 110 in original packaging. Uses 110 film. 1/125 Second Shutter. Has Pop-Out Coin Holder. Sharp color corrected f/8 25mm lens. 1/125 sec shutter speed.
Some photos taken with this camera: www.flickr.com/photos/60348236@N07/albums/72157675454400024