How to Make a Strip Camera
August 18, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Cameras
[Image removed upon request]
Perverts, check out this camera designed for surveillance purposes.
Now that’s out of the way, abstract photography connoisseurs may be interested in this strip camera DIY. It’s hard to see the appeal of distorted sports photography, but then again, artists are never understood in their own time!
By far the best place to start is by reading the works of Andrew Davidhazy, a professor at RIT with a passion for strip cameras and a prolific writer. In his publication “Basics of Strip Photography” (ref 10), Andrew describes a simple method of using a standard 35mm film camera and converting it to a strip camera. It was this piece that inspired me to try my hand. Do a Google search on Andrew and you’ll find several other publications on strip cameras such as in references 11-13.
And of course, analog art, dependent on regularly replenished supplies like film and antique equipment, may be a bit more expensive than its digital counterpart. But you can feel like you’re a real artiste, no?
You cant steal peoples photos. This is a crime. This work is copyrighted by the photographer. Please take it down! or further action will be taken.
I believe the use of the photograph here is fair, since this post is not merely derivative of your DIY.
To accommodate you though, I will take the picture down. But now how am I to illustrate the concept of strip cameras, and get more people interested in your DIY?
This is just paranoid. The photo was a small preview, unusable for something that could harm the photographer’s rights. Anyhow, people should understand that this sort of digital content WILL BE FREE in the near future. You can’t stop that, and you can’t stop free music sharing. It’s like fighting the human spirit.