ReFrame – The EPaper Camera
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ReFrame – The EPaper Camera
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#2I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.
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#3I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.
It seems to be playing on Nostalgia, judging by these paragraphs like this one:
>The dithered photos look somewhere between a newspaper halftone and an old video game. The processing is part of the fun: you watch the colors come in one by one, like a digital polaroid.
Frankly, it does seem like a very fun gimmick, but also highly impractical. But my adoration of this little thing might just come from a general longing of the low-tech, simple devices of the past.
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#4I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.
Cameras are both gadgets and instruments of artistic impression, if you only measure them quantitatively you miss a lot.
These cameras can be fun the same way a toy piano might be fun to a virtuoso pianist. Something different.
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#5 > With ePaper, the photo on screen stays there even after powering off.
> The only way to clear the screen is to take a new photo.
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> Source: https://reframe.camera
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#6A color eink screen is a wonderful recalibration for a screen that kids can use compared to the overstimulation of an lcd, especially with touchscreen features.
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#7I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.
Something doesn’t have to be for everyone.
There is a good amount of articles of how we worked towards one device for everything, and more are rediscovering single use devices.
One use case is it helps kids understand how things work, including using dvds, etc.
A low fidelity photo allows the imagination to fill in the picture. Insistent kids can relate to lower fidelity as their own writing and drawing evolves.
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#8I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.
Restriction is a widely used technique in both art, and life. Consider black and white paintings, or generally paintings which only use shades of a single color? Why are they not using all the colors when they exist?
What about people who do challenging athletic endeavors with limitations? The ice guy climbed up to the base camp of Everest in just his shorts and slippers. Why not wear more?
What about minimalism as a way of life? Why not buy more if you have money?
This is just how humans are.
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#9ove the constraints—15 seconds to develop and one photo at a time makes it feel like a digital Polaroid. Great that it’s open source, too.
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#10Very cute idea. I would expect that with a 15 second develop time and no live display preview some kind of optical viewfinder would be very helpful. I love seeing weird cameras.