The Onion discovers long lost View Camera Phone

[MikeM1977]

Enjoy the satiric humor!

http://www.theonion.com/articles/longlost-jules-verne-short-story-the-cameraphone-f,1735/

 

[domaz]

Here's an early film-based camera phone. Courtesy Flight of the Conchords.

 

[moki]

That's great
I'd love to see the ads for this one... "Are you tired of your bulky full plate phone? Get the new telegraphic voice transmitter with built-in half plate camera! It's the future technology for the 20th century!"

 

[Jeff Kubach]

That is wonderful! The front looks like a face.

Jeff

 

[Colin Corneau]

Well I'd love to enjoy the satiric humour, but it seems the Onion is now a subscriber based site -- I can't look at that page without being re-directed by a paywall.

Way to go, another good site ruined by the suits.

 

[mjs]

Well I'd love to enjoy the satiric humour, but it seems the Onion is now a subscriber based site -- I can't look at that page without being re-directed by a paywall.

Way to go, another good site ruined by the suits.

I had no difficulty. I'm using Opera as my web browser.

Mike

 

[moki]

Well I'd love to enjoy the satiric humour, but it seems the Onion is now a subscriber based site -- I can't look at that page without being re-directed by a paywall.

Way to go, another good site ruined by the suits.

Strange... Using Opera, both directly from germany and through a TOR-proxy in the UK I can access it. Should "America's Finest News Source" finally be disabled for americans?

 

[JohnMeadows]

On a related note, an app I would like to see is one that uses the phone's camera to display the input upside down and backwards, as a way to practice view-camera visualization/composition. Dark cloth optional

 

[MattKing]

Well I'd love to enjoy the satiric humour, but it seems the Onion is now a subscriber based site -- I can't look at that page without being re-directed by a paywall.

Way to go, another good site ruined by the suits.

It must be because you are in Manitoba .

No problem here - using Firefox

 

[Colin Corneau]

LOL...at least you didn't call me a Yank, Matt!

I think it's based on number of page views...thanks for posting this regardless!

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

No problem here in Washington, DC using Safari.

 

[eddym]

The Onion is worth the price. After all... it's America's Finest News Source!!!

 

[lxdude]

The Onion is worth the price. After all... it's America's Finest News Source!!!

And as they'll tell you, long overdue for a Pulitzer Prize.