Honey, I Ate The Camera
We like cameras here at Hackaday. We like them a lot. But until now that liking has never extended to liking their taste. A build from [Dmitri Tcherbadji] could change …read more Continue reading Honey, I Ate The Camera
Category Archives: instant camera
You Can Now Build Your Own Polaroid-style Pack Film Cartridge
Instant photography was one of the twentieth century’s coolest-to-have consumer inventions, but when the digital photography revolution came it had few answers. It survives as a niche format thanks to …read more Continue reading You Can Now Build Your Own Polaroid-style Pack Film Cartridge
Converting a Polaroid SX70 Camera To Use 600 Film
These days, it’s possible to buy a number of different Polaroid instant cameras new off the shelf. That’s largely thanks to the retro resurgence that has buoyed interest in everything …read more Continue reading Converting a Polaroid SX70 Camera To Use 600 Film
Will We Ever Shake the Polaroid Picture?
Today, most of us carry supercomputers in our pockets that happen to also take instantly-viewable pictures.This is something that even the dumbest phones do, meaning that we can reasonably draw …read more Continue reading Will We Ever Shake the Polaroid Picture?
The Digital Polaroid SX-70
What do you do if you own an iconic and unusual camera from decades past? Do you love it and cherish it, buy small quantities of its expensive remanufactured film and take arty photographs? Or do you rip it apart and remake it as a modern-day digital camera in a …read more
Adding Real Lenses To An Instant Camera
The Instax SQ6 and Fujifilm’s entire range of instant cameras are fun little boxes that produce instant photos. It’s a polaroid that’s not Polaroid, and like most instant cameras, the lenses are just one or two pieces of plastic. A lens transplant is in order, and that’s exactly what [Kevin] …read more
Instant Camera with This Year’s Hottest Dithering Technique
Digital cameras are great, because you can take thousands of pictures without running out of film. But there’s something to be said for having a tangible image you can hold in your hand. The Polaroid cameras of yesteryear were great for this, but now they’re hard to find and the price per photograph is ludicrously expensive.
Over the past few years, a few people have sought a way to create printed photographs at a lower cost. One of the best ways to do this is to find something much cheaper than Polaroid film — like thermal paper.
[Fabien-Chouteau]’s thermal printing …read more
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