ReFrame – The EPaper Camera

singpolyma3

I don't fully understand the obsession with making less-capable devices and talking about them as though being less capable is a feature by itself.

serious_angel

> With ePaper, the photo on screen stays there even after powering off. > The only way to clear the screen is to take a new photo. > > Source: https://reframe.camera Thank you... dear developers, artists, people... for the marvel, art you do...

j45

A color eink screen is a wonderful recalibration for a screen that kids can use compared to the overstimulation of an lcd, especially with touchscreen features.

leonmeng

ove the constraints—15 seconds to develop and one photo at a time makes it feel like a digital Polaroid. Great that it’s open source, too.

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.

fcnprvfgurcynpr

cute. I'd like to see some photos without the dithering applied, as it looks similar to a regular dithered jpeg, like you'd see on https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ it would be fun to try out a few different algos for the colour space conversion.

3dedb728-3f77

So is the goal to make ewaste now? What is the point?

BobbyTables2

Reminds me of photos in games about 30 years ago…

nels

Very cool! Any idea what the approximate battery life on this is?

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: https://monopo.vn/ (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-... )

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 :-)

fractallyte

This dithering could also be an interesting variation: https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html (Featured few days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006096 )