Designing an "ART" camera?

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

 

[chip j]

I apologizfor the name-calling & insults; I'll just let this thread die or go it's own way w/o me.

 

[removed account4]

maybe a fully customizable way to focus and view the image?
so instead of looking through a viewfinder you would look at the back like a view camera
and have a way to manipulate in the camera through lens and film plane movements
like a view camera, but with a very small camera instead ... but not so small that
the image is unsee-able, it would be magnified and brightened and
the image focused would be 4x the size of the actual film, so the camera operator,
with the movement of a finger could crop and manipulate the focus of the final image anyway he or she wanted to.

it seems like a waste of time to me to have all these intense options for a 35mm camera, or any camera,
since when one spends so much time fiddling around with "stuff" the moment has passed ...

an "artist camera" for me is just a simple box all that extra fluff isn't really necessary ..

 

[Chan Tran]

I apologizfor the name-calling & insults; I'll just let this thread die or go it's own way w/o me.

I still don't understand what you want! You post something not clear then leave it there.

 

[bsdunek]

Get a holga and focus differently; definitely an ART camera.

That was my first thought!

 

[DREW WILEY]

Any camera is an artiste's camera as long as the person behind it has green hair and a bunch or nose rings.

 

[chip j]

Sorry, bur I do have a mental problem that keeps me from articulating in detail. But I do have a knack for taking pics.

 

[Bill Burk]

Just got back from the mtns, brought two cameras and I should have brought only one. The consumer-grade odd-duck half-frame camera was amusing, but I had to "turn it on" and wait for it to be ready to shoot, I had little control (but I could set "modes" that reverted as soon as I turned it off). It also was low-quality plastic build which I think I wore out on the one trip. Not something I think will be a regular camera in my repertoire...

When I switched gears and picked up the OM-1, I felt much, much closer to holding a camera I would choose to pursue art. But then I like Galen Rowell and took a copy of his book to the mtns this trip.

As The Flying Council offered, a Rolleiflex is very good as an art camera. In an artist's hands it is a simple self-contained unit that doesn't require accessories to get the job done, it makes a large negative that can be blown up to mural size if the vision demands.

I took this thread as a playful "what if", and tossed out an idea I got from a few weeks ago when shooting in a dark club and I couldn't see the viewfinder. I did get one frame in the dark that became a quick favorite - but from my perspective it could have been better composed. Night vision technology could be put to the task. Also a digital finder for a film camera would be very, cool. I don't think it would be commercially produced but maybe an amateur could rig something. Maybe someone can program an app for a smart phone that you take a picture, manipulate the image and then it tells you the settings to transcribe to a film camera including distance, f/stop, shutter speed, film and development time.