By Dan Nosowitz Posted 07.18.2012 at 10:14 am 4 Comments

Turtle Camera Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs

Camera design is getting more and more interesting as its components get smaller, but there's one major limitation: cameras are always made out of cameras. I know! Ridiculous! Our friends over at Pop Photo put together a list of cameras made out of things that are not cameras--turtle shells, garbage cans, an egg, and more. Take a note, camera makers. Read the full story over at Pop Photo.

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purfus
07/18/12 at 10:52 am

The poor turtle. It must think it's being attacked by a cyborg turtle. Imagine what you would think if it were you and a camera made out of a human body. That's horrible.

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Robot
07/18/12 at 1:59 pm

Beginnings of the Borg.....

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alias007
07/19/12 at 10:43 am

Resistance is reptile.

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macdoodle
09/27/12 at 3:27 pm

Oh, this is not new, but very cool to encourage- www.afghanboxcamera.com/
www.ehow.com/how_6733973_make-simple-pinhole-camera.html
http://www.steveirvine.com/ceramic_cameras.html

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