ReFrame: An Open Source ePaper Camera for Deliberate Photography
ReFrame – The EPaper Camera
I built reFrame, an experimental camera using a color ePaper display to capture one photo at a time. Each image takes 15 seconds to appear, creating a deliberate experience similar to a digital Polaroid. The device uses off-the-shelf components like a Raspberry Pi Zero and is fully open source, allowing anyone to build their own. Photos remain on the screen even when powered off, turning the camera into a permanent desk frame until the next shot is taken.
The only way to clear the screen is to take a new photo.
- ChuckMcM
Its a great idea, I think they should read the papers on dithering (I've got a color e-paper display and you can get a lot less noise than that by better dithering). The interesting thing is that back in the film days you took your 12 pictures and sent them off to the lab, and two or three days later you found out if any of them were great. This gives some of that "wait for it" kind of feel back to the photography. And at least for me, I think longer about taking a shot if I won't know instantly if its good or not :-)
- num42
Great work! About two hours ago, I was listening to "Générique" by Miles Davis (jazz) with a noisy, animated gradient background. The whole experience felt incredibly immersive. Now, this camera can bring that beautiful noise texture into photos with a single click. Add some clever motion graphics and transform those photos into illustrative noisy textured gradients, it could become an amazing music visualizer for jazz lovers. I don't know why, but I'm really obsessed with noisy textures.
Générique by Miles Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73OSYyq5E0
Immersive noisy background:
(I'm not affiliated with the site in any way. I just came across it on the Awwwards website: https://www.awwwards.com/inspiration/monopo-saigon-hypnotic-...)
- hankbond
Very cute idea. I would expect that with a 15 second develop time and no live display preview some kind of optical viewfinder would be very helpful. I love seeing weird cameras.