DIY cameras in WWII prison camps

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http://petapixel.com/2013/08/04/wwii-prisoners-built-improvised-cameras-to-document-their-lives/

 

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Amazing. And read "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand to get an idea of how horrific conditions inside the Japanese camps were.

 

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...and I whine about how the corner drug store doesn't develop film anymore...

 

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Very well done, considering the conditions they had to work under!

 

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It's amazing enough that they were able to make a still camera, but a movie camera is incredible.


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Steve Smith said:

It's amazing enough that they were able to make a still camera, but a movie camera is incredible.
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That was my thought too. With the complex mechanism required it's amazing. Then, they had to develop it with all that involves. Amazing the human can do.

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WOW

Thanks