2D Photography Inc. | Rube Goldberg. So we’ve been working on a project for the last while. To me personally, this is a BIG project. Probably the largest thus far of my photography career, and it’s not even a photo-shoot. Along with the usual workload at 2D Photography Inc., we’ve been secretly (somewhat) working on this Rube Goldberg Machine for nearly six months give or take.
Some of you may have guessed what we were up to from our teasers (Teaser, Teaser 2 for ????? It’s been a while since the idea came to me in late November, 2010. Well, I hope you all enjoyed that! Sufficed to say, this Rube Goldberg video could not have happened without the support of a few organizations. Penny Auctions Canada Florentina Foods Lowepro Joby Pelican SanDisk The Brilliance Running Red Lights Track Avenue Records Bruce I. Additionally, a fair number of people have had a hand in helping or bearing with both 2D Photography Inc. and myself with this project. One last note. Essentially there’s a whack of mousetraps in this thing. David Dvir. Legotron, Mark I — 4×5 Camera made of LEGO bricks | cary norton photographs. IM TRANSFERRING ALL THE INFO ABOUT THE LEGOTRON HERE. If you've stumbled here while I'm working on this, please see these things: Original Blog Post Blog post update Legotron Mark 1.1 Gallery of images shot with the Legotron Back in August of 2009, I blogged about having an idea of making a 4x5 out of LEGO bricks.
Fast forward something like a year, and I finally carved out time to restructure everything to fit the back and actually finish the super-low-budget "ground glass". Here are the 4 frames I shot. Image Deblurring using Inertial Measurement Sensors. Abstract We present a deblurring algorithm that uses a hardware attachment coupled with a natural image prior to deblur images from consumer cameras. Our approach uses a combination of inexpensive gyroscopes and accelerometers in an energy optimization framework to estimate a blur function from the camera’s acceleration and angular velocity during an exposure. We solve for the camera motion at a high sampling rate during an exposure and infer the latent image using a joint optimization. Our method is completely automatic, handles per-pixel, spatially-varying blur, and out-performs the current leading image-based methods.
Our experiments show that it handles large kernels – up to at least 100 pixels, with a typical size of 30 pixels. Examples. Image deblurring using inertial measurement sensors @Makezine.com blog. Looking Around Corners - Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab. Home | News | Join Us | People | Projects | Publications | Talks | Courses The seemingly impossible task of recording what is beyond the line of sight is possible due to ultra‐fast imaging . A new form of photography, Femto-photography exploits the finite speed of light and analyzes 'echoes of light'. (Illustration: Tiago Allen) Femto-Photography uses time resolved transient imaging via a high speed time of flight camera. Team Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Project Director Moungi G. Bawendi, Professor, Dept of Chemistry, MIT James Davis, UC Santa Cruz Andreas Velten, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Media Lab Ahmed Kirmani, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Tyler Hutchison, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Rohit Pandharkar, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Andrew Matthew Bardagjy, Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Everett Lawson, MIT Media Lab Abstract We have built a camera that can look around corners and beyond the line of sight.
References Application Scenarios. High Speed Photography - Let Arduino turn The Lights Off For You. If you’re reading DIYP for a while you probably know that High Speed Photography is not about high shutter speeds. Au contraire. It is about shooting very long exposures in bulb mode, and using a strobe to freeze the action with a split second light. This means that once you have a setup read to go, you turn off the lights. go back to your setup and pop the balloon / break the glass / shoot the bullet.
Kinda messy and uncomfortable. Ask Edward Horsford, the exploding balloons magician. Photographer Matt Richardson came up with a better to do it. In the video after the jump, Matt explains this concept, and shared the circuit to make this magic happen. This is the circuit to get the camera and room lights hooked up into the Arduino board. Lastly, the source code for the project can be found here. Club de photo Optica • Page d’index. Gallery - 1st Place, 2010 - Jonas King.
Malaria’s impact worldwide is still an issue, particularly in developing countries. Research is ongoing to study the carriers of malaria, mosquitoes, and how they carry and transmit the disease and other pathogens. That’s why the 2010 winning image by Jonas King is so important to the life science community. Anopheles gambiae (mosquito heart) was captured at 100x magnification.
Jonas works out of Vanderbilt University’s Hillyer Lab, which studies the interactions between mosquitoes and their pathogens, along with salivary components and how they interact with the vertebrate host’s immune response. The image details the structural organization of the mosquito heart and provides insight into how mosquitoes move blood to all regions of their bodies. Glif - iPhone 4 Tripod Mount & Stand by Dan Provost. Just missed the Kickstarter campaign? Don't worry! Head to www.theglif.com where you can sign up to be notified as soon as Glifs are available to order. You can also follow us on twitter (@theglif), where we will be making all sorts of updates and announcements. Hello there! Thanks for visiting our Kickstarter page. With your help, we'd love to release a product into the world that we think is pretty swell. Glif is a simple iPhone 4 accessory with two primary functions: mounting your iPhone to a standard tripod, and acting as a kickstand to prop your iPhone up at an angle.
So why do we need YOUR help? The idea for the Glif was first formed when we realized the iPhone 4 is literally the best camera we've ever owned. It was always our intention for the Glif to serve as a kickstand for the iPhone as well, but it took several design iterations before we got it just right. The Glif will be manufactured with a Santoprene (grade 101-87) hard rubber. So what are you waiting for? Crabfu $5 iPhone Microscope Mod. Here is my microscope mod.... really simple to make, dirt cheap, and hours of fun!
The link to the $5 microscope on amazon. Comes with 3 batteries, 2 LEDs, free Prime shipping, the Best 5 bucks you'll spend today. The iPhone4 BodyGlove case I'm using. And some sample pics taken with it: Surface of a fossil crab carapace Blue Jeans Slide of a spider Leaf Slide of a Flea a random tiny insect found in my car seat $20 bill. Online : Custom camera mount & telescope tracking motor. Online : Building giant cameras. Online : Stereoscopic view splitter. Stereoscopes and View-Masters have always fascinated me. The technology has been around for over a century and seems to have been reinvented with every generation. If you’re thinking about getting into shooting 3D, but would like to keep the costs down, you’ll want to check out this 3D Stereoscope Slide and Video Shooter Instructable by courtervideo.
[via DIYPhotography] Adam Flaherty I make cool stuff and write about other people making cool stuff on makezine.com. Related. Online : Handmade Cameras by Mats Wernersson. From a scratch built 9×12 Field Camera to an early digital camera assembled on perf board, Mats Wernersson has rightfully earned the moniker of The Camera Maker. Look past the quality build and attention to detail and you’ll notice that every camera Mats has built is a rare specimen.
With interests in stereoscopic imaging, astronomy, panorama and plenoptic cameras, there’s little wonder why Mats takes the DIY approach. Adam Flaherty I make cool stuff and write about other people making cool stuff on makezine.com. If you have something you think I should see, send me a tip. Related. Online : PVC skater dolly. Online : DIY macro lens for Nexus One. Online : Panobotor, a DIY panoramic and orbital panorama machine. The Amazing High Speed Bullet Photography of Alexander Augusteijn. If you think shooting fast moving animals is difficult, try shooting bullets slicing water drops. That’s the kind of mind-boggling photography that Alexander Augusteijn does. There’s no tricks or clever Photoshop manipulations involved… just dedication and a whole lotta patience. Augusteijn tells us, I am a photographer from the Netherlands, specializing in high speed photography.
To see more of Augusteijn’s amazing work, head on over to his website. Image credits: Photographs by Alexander Augusteijn and used with permission. Blog : How-To: Build an Amateur Photography Rig. Make a buoy for your digicam. DIY 3D photography with Processing. After several people complained that they were worried that wiggle stereoscopy might trigger a seizure, I thought it made sense to revisit the subject and show how to create real 3D images. For the full effect, you'll need to get a pair of Red/Blue glasses on Amazon, or alternatively, hack up a pair yourself. Once you have the glasses, you'll be able to use the Processing script at the bottom of the page to create and view 3D photographs like these: Stereoscopy in a Nutshell Stereoscopy is a technique of fusing two slightly offset images into a single image in a way that creates an illusion of depth.
The classic 3D technique, called anaglyphic stereoscopy, applies a red filter to the left eye's image and a blue filter to the right eye's image. The offset images are then aligned on the subject and fused into a single image. The rest of this Answer will walk you through the process of creating your own images. Now to implement the model in Processing. PImage merged; FreshView – Awesome App To Organize & Browse Your Multimedia Files [Windows] While Windows Explorer lets you view the thumbnails of photos in a directory, it isn’t always a simple matter to preview selected multiple files from a long list, or preview other media like video files or audio. This is why I was pretty excited to discover FreshView, which is sort of like a Multimedia Explorer app – essentially Windows Explorer on steroids – it allows you to organize files and folders like images, audio and video.
This application comes fully loaded to support up to 86 file formats including image, audio and video file formats. This means that not only can you view and preview media files, you can also convert image files from one format to any other. Here at MUO, we like new ways to sort and make use of media files, such as Oosah for sharing media, EncodeHD for converting media, and of course Israel’s useful list of 5 media file converters. FreshView is a great addition to the list. Playing With Images In FreshView FreshView’s strength is in dealing with image files. Do Much More With Your Photos Using PhotoScape [Windows] It turns out that there are still many things that you can do with your photos and PhotoScape can help you with that. This is a Windows-only application that provides its users with many photo editing possibilities.
Standard Features & More PhotoScape might not be as famous as Picasa, IrfanView, or iPhoto (Mac) but it has many unique features that even the giants don’t have. The app’s first page shows random Flickr images on the left and also gives you access to all of its features; from the common ones like an image editor to the uncommon ones like an animated GIF maker. These menus are also available through tabs on the upper left of the window.
The most basic feature is the image viewer. Next to the Viewer is the Editor tab. One unique editing feature that I found and like is “Mosaic” under the “Tools” tab. You can select an area within an image, adjust the smoothness of the mosaic effect that you want to apply, and you’ve got something like this. Other Unique Features. The Camera Lens Mug. Ru_macro: Кратко о супермакро. Как-то, бродя по «Фотосайту», я наткнулся на одну работу, которая меня очень сильно поразила. Была сфотографирована снежинка. Но не просто снежинка, а СНЕЖИНКА – с каким-то фантастическим увеличением, буквально под микроскопом. Еще больше меня удивило то, что снимок был сделан в домашних условиях с помощью бюджетной ультразумной камеры.
И закономерно возникли вопросы: как сделать также, ну или хотя бы похоже? Фото 1. Для начала надо разобраться, что нам нужно для получения супермакро фотографии. Первый и самый главный компонент – цифровая незеркальная ультразумная камера. Вторым необходимым компонентом нашей установки является 50-ти мм объектив от зеркального фотоаппарата (Фото 1, слева-вверху). Подсоединять Гелиос к камере надо с помощью реверсивного макрокольца (правда я первое время обходился изолентой). Как я уже говорил, на моем Гелиосе резьба для фильтров – 49 мм. Ну и конечно очень рекомендуется штатив. Ну что ж, приступим.
Для начала установим камеру на штатив: Фото 2. Фото 3. P. DIY FlashBender. Strobist Corner: Mount Your Hot Shoe Strobe On Big Modifiers. Create Wonderful Digital Pinhole Pictures Using a Tobacco Box. LIM Intervalometer Fits In A Liquorice Drops Box and Takes Time Lapse Movies. Online : How-To: Take great photos of your projects. Online : Photoduino, a camera-controlling Arduino shield. Online : How-To: Sensor Tutorial -- IR remote receiver-decoder tutorial. Online : Mint-tin intervalometer. Online : Canon 7D vs. Barbie Video Girl video comparison. Online : Building a sound-activated camera flash using a Picture-Axe. Online : How-To: "Light stencil" effects for light painting. Online : Stick and can 3D lighting rig. Online : "Cuban Polaroid" is ultra-low-tech camera, darkroom all in one.
Online : DIY 3D photo rig. Online : How-To: Build a star-tracker for your camera. Online : DIY bookscanner kit. Online : Macro self portrait in the ball of a ball-point pen. Online : Pinhole video. Online : Dead-simple shutter speed tester from old mouse parts. Online : Fifty years of squares.