Monday, March 10, 2008

Holga Camera Takes 3D Pictures


It's too early for April Fool's, and this isn't some sort of mutant camera escaped from a Chernobyl factory — it's a beautifully modded Holga toy camera capable of creating 3-D photos. Randy Smith, who's made a career out of customizing the toy cameras, took two perfectly good Holgas, introduced them to a diamond-tipped bandsaw and emerged with a stereoscopic Frankenstein, with the build quality of a factory-made piece… albeit with the soft focus and light leaks that toy cams are known for.
The fused camera ends up with lenses roughly the same distance apart as human eyes, creating two slightly different angles of the same subject.

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