It's alive! It's alive! This guy not only built his own camera but also made the 1-kilopixel brain by hand. Having a digital camera that only has a single kilopixel isn't really anything to brag about...unless you built that friggin' thing with your own two hands, sensor included. That's exactly what YouTuber and creator Sean Hodgins did. Meet the "digiObscura", a hand-made digital camera made from 3D-printed parts, a custom image sensor, and a broken Canon 35-105mm f/4.5-5.6 lens. Find out how Hodgins built this thing from scratch in his video below. As you might be able to tell from the camera's name, the digiObscura was originally meant to be a pinhole camera. However, when Hodgins realized it wasn't producing enough light, he decided to repurpose the front glass of an old Canon 35-105mm f/4.5-5.6 lens. And even though the image sensor itself is only comprised of 1000 pixels, I think we can all appreciate the fact that Hodgins placed and soldered each and every photo cell by hand. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 2 January, 2020