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Steam Punk cameras

Some of them are just garden-variety folders, and for some reason there's a perfectly ordinary-looking Vito in there as well. I think we forget just how outrageous a folder looks to the "civilian" eye---at this point, most people's idea of "old camera" is a Nikkormat!

That "La Sardina" camera seems to be a current Lomography product. Not bad-looking but an excessively self-conscious design, IMHO.

-NT
 
fantasy

Most of those so-called Steampunk cameras on that site are as phony as a $3 bill with Richard Nixon's portrait on it. Whoever jumbled those photos together threw in a few actual old cameras, mostly folders. Some people make outrageous designs and put a webcam inside but most of those viewed are for show, not go.They are mostly a fashion statement. I have nothing against the notion if someone would build a real -- but outrageous -- camera that actually took photos. Might be fun. I have a "new" Kodak 35 (circa 1943) that is butt-ugly and looks pretty steampunk but I have not run any film through it yet.
 
It would be interesting to see an Oskar Barnack steam punk design.
 
Looks like a lot of "Just glue some gears on it...'

[video=youtube_share;TFCuE5rHbPA]http://youtu.be/TFCuE5rHbPA[/video]
 
I did not came the term "steam punk" across before, and did not see anything like that either.
 
other side

I think Oskar B. was on the other side of the coin -- form follows function, not Victorian-era razzle dazzle.
 
My 16 YO daughter is into steampunk, she's always making or modifying things to add to her persona. She has a couple of Kodak folders that have been worked over in her collection.
 
Like many fashion trends, Steampunk seems rather silly to most of us, but it's harmless. I think bdial had it right: glue some gears on it and call it Steampunk. There is, at the heart of it, a sort of arts and crafts mentality to the movement (if it may be called that) that I appreciate.
 
I've been told my pre-anniversary speed graphic is pretty steampunk. Not enough victorian bling in my opinion.


I admire actual steampunk / brass era craftsmanship, just not into fiction of that era.
 
Hmmm....wonder if my coffee tin pinhole camera counts as steampunk?...
 
Steve better not photograph any marathons with those round cameras with pipes and pressure guages.
 
For very, very 'out there' and true-to-form steampunk cameras, the intellectual contraptions by 'Boy of Blue' illicit a whole gamut of emotions: shock, horror, amazement, amusement ... but above all, a profound acknowledgement that this guy can turn anything into a working camera (the photographs accompanying them prove that). Those pinhole cameras are outstanding as objets d'art. My favourite is the somewhat ghastly get-up called '3rd Eye'.

http://boyofblue.com/cameras/3rd_eye.html
 
Almost any pre-1940 camera will look at least partially steampunkish. Props for folders (Kodak Autographic, Moskva 5 or Super Ikontas are my bet here) and LF boxes with black skirt... And Leica (-like) with collapsible lens looks totally like it's owner just stepped out of a Zeppelin's board. There are some brass copies of Leica if you really need to have a brass camera. And, well, we use such cameras, it's the right forum to meet such people...
Out of what I've seen in google results, I've had in my hands Fed 5 and Zenit.
 
Oh, google "Wayne Martin Belger"...
 
Where can Wayne Martin Belger's work be found? the old website boyofblue seems to be no more.
Facebook is active though... and looks like might have a new website soon.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Boy-of-...lger-198083750233658/about/?ref=page_internal

https://www.freestylephoto.biz/board-of-advisors/wayne-martin-belger

this has a decent over view of his cameras: https://www.thephotoargus.com/photographer-showcase-wayne-martin-belger/

He was at medium last year so appears to still be active in his pursuits.
http://mediumsandiego.org/portfolio/wayne-martin-belger/
 
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