Thursday, April 8, 2010

How can I make a camera with paper?

Following shows how to make an NX10 camera with papaer.

Have you seen this video? A video that presents the benefits of NX10 in a fun and unambiguous way!

As you can tell, this clip was made using stop motion – a sequence display of still pictures to give the illusion that it is moving. In fact, animation is made using stop motion.
Here’s how it works.


Using a camera modeled using 3D, print out cross-sectional diagram of the camera – as if taking an MRI.
A good 1429 pages were printed out to make two cameras.
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If you’re done printing, cut them out. Cutting 1,000 pages is a tremendous work!

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Once you are done with the cutting, paste them one by one. See how it’s gradually turning into a camera?
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Voila!
A paper NX10 :)

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View from the back

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Model A is NX10. The camera is small, so requires less paper.

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Now, for the Model B camera on the right to transform to NX10, we have to take out a lot of the components.

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Take out the pentaprism…

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And the mirror…

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Now you have the compact NX10!

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I also needed 1038 images for the amusement park scene at the latter part of the video. I pasted one after the other to make it appear as if moving.


You can check out the video for more details.



Wasn’t that fun?
Why don’t you try making a stop motion animation for yourself?
It is time-consuming and tedious but once you have the outcome, you’ll see that it’s definitely worth it!




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