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ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by tedggh »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #2

I 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.

One positive aspect of a camera like this is that it forces you to slow down. Because you can’t take 10 frames per second hoping to get some keepers, you become more intentional when shooting. I took a photography class where we were asked to cover the LCDs with cardboard, so that you couldn’t get an immediate feedback and slow down a bit. Another trick is to format memory cards so that they can only store a few exposures. Going slow sometimes is a good thing.

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by num42 »

Great work! About two hours ago, I was listening to "Générique" by Miles Davis (jazz) with a noisy, animated gradient background. The whole experience felt incredibly immersive. Now, this camera can bring that beautiful noise texture into photos with a single click. Add some clever motion graphics and transform those photos into illustrative noisy textured gradients, it could become an amazing music visualizer for jazz lovers. I don't know why, but I'm really obsessed with noisy textures.

Générique by Miles Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73OSYyq5E0

Immersive noisy background: https://monopo.vn/

(I'm not affiliated with the site in any way. I just came across it on the Awwwards website: https://www.awwwards.com/inspiration/monopo-saigon-hypnotic-...)

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by num42 »

fcnprvfgurcynpr wrote: post #11

cute. I'd like to see some photos without the dithering applied, as it looks similar to a regular dithered jpeg, like you'd see on https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ it would be fun to try out a few different algos for the colour space conversion.

Thanks for that website link, I really like dithered aesthetics. I will convert my entire photos into dithers. Thank you so much again.

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by ChuckMcM »

Its a great idea, I think they should read the papers on dithering (I've got a color e-paper display and you can get a lot less noise than that by better dithering). The interesting thing is that back in the film days you took your 12 pictures and sent them off to the lab, and two or three days later you found out if any of them were great. This gives some of that "wait for it" kind of feel back to the photography. And at least for me, I think longer about taking a shot if I won't know instantly if its good or not :-)

Re: ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

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Post by Gigachad »

tedggh wrote: post #13
singpolyma3 wrote: post #2

I 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.

One positive aspect of a camera like this is that it forces you to slow down. Because you can’t take 10 frames per second hoping to get some keepers, you become more intentional when shooting. I took a photography class where we were asked to cover the LCDs with cardboard, so that you couldn’t get an immediate feedback and slow down a bit. Another trick is to format memory cards so that they can only store a few expo…

These days you can flip the LCD facing inwards so it kinda feels like a film camera being viewfinder only.
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