40 Disposable Camera's

Post by **johnnhud** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:09 pm

I got caught up in the hype and bought 40 disposable camera's for $25 off ebay the other day. Why? I don't need them. I guess I just throught that it was a good deal.

Soooooooooo...........What can I do with 40 Kodak disposable cameras?

Some type of bullet time effects?
Give them to Kids to make them think I'm a cool guy who gives away cameras?
Wrap them in plastic and use as a cheap underwater camera?

What would YOU do with 40 Disposable Camera's

Post by **etimh** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:14 pm

johnnhud wrote:What would YOU do with 40 Disposable Camera's

I put them all around my loft when we have large parties. Put them everywhere--even in the john. Encourage people to take pictures by taping a little note on the body. When you get them all developed it's really wild--a near complete record of the party and you aren't personally stuck being the "picture-taker."

Tim

Post by **TronX** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:42 pm

Construct a giant clear-plastic ball and mount the cameras inside, facing out. Then, rewire all of the shutter releases to be set off as the ball rolls over the ground but the release is at a 90 degree angle to the camera so you get a picture of the ball's travel down a hill or through a parking garage or something. Repeat 39 times.

As a bonus, put a smaller plastic ball inside the big one with cameras between the two and use it as a giant hampster ball for people that documents their journey.

Post by **hassan** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:58 pm

Have a competition. Give them to some kids at your local school, and have a theme for the competition - something like shooting all the film in an afternoon. Then get a local lab to process them for free and have an exhibition.

Post by **TronX** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:31 pm

I drew a picture of my idea to make it more understandable.

If you click on the pictures you get a better look. Notice I added a Super 8 helmet cam to document the experience.

Post by **Angus** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:33 pm

I'd hand them out to friends at a party...and learn correct use of apostrophes...

Post by **johnnhud** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:16 pm

Angus wrote:I'd hand them out to friends at a party...and learn correct use of apostrophes...

Wh'y? Yo'u woul'd thin'k tha't i't bothere'd yo'u t'o hav'e a'n extr'a apostroph'e i'n m'y subjec't lin'e!

Technically, I could argue that I meant to imply ownership of the cameras by adding the apostrophe!

Post by **Joe Gioielli** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:48 am

If you have a po box, or another "safe" address, put the address and a note on ten of the cameras asking asking peolpe to take pictures with them and then send the camera back to you. Leave them in public places and see if anyone wants to play.

Joe

Post by **TronX** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:09 am

Joe Gioielli wrote:If you have a po box, or another "safe" address, put the address and a note on ten of the cameras asking asking peolpe to take pictures with them and then send the camera back to you. Leave them in public places and see if anyone wants to play.

Joe

Be careful if you do that because some sicko could come to your house (with the address you've provided) and kill you and then take pictures of you after you're dead with the camera you gave him that helped him kill you.

Post by **dirb9** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:00 am

Thats....rather.....creepy. That ball thing looks pretty awesome. It might be fun to make like a series of shots, kinda like that one from a hiundred years ago with the horse running. Hassan's idea is by far the most philathropic, though.

Post by **feinto** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:23 am

strap the camera onto any animal..so u get alot of POV shots

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:42 am

"If you have a po box, or another "safe" address, put the address and a note on ten of the cameras asking asking peolpe to take pictures with them and then send the camera back to you. Leave them in public places and see if anyone wants to play."

How is a PO box safe? If some freak snaps kiddie porn on it and brings it back to you, I can guarantee that you'll still be in some trouble ;)

Maybe put the cameras in a (very) large model rocket or drop them from a high altitude radio controlled plane. Set up each with a solenoid and motor winder to get short 'time lapse' segments.

Or you could use them to make a stop-motion animation on 35mm ;) Are these 24 or 27 exposure models? Anyway, you have almost a minute (at 18 fps) in either case.

Post by **Mogzy** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:07 pm

TronX wrote:
Be careful if you do that because some sicko could come to your house (with the address you've provided) and kill you and then take pictures of you after you're dead with the camera you gave him that helped him kill you.

At the risk of appearing xenophobic... "Only an American would think of that".

Either that or someone's been watching too many X rated horror flicks! (or is it now NC-17? Someone told me you guys replaced the X with that).

Post by **arnaud** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:04 pm

it was a joke.

Post by **TronX** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:58 pm

I'm a teenager so they warn us about this at school every day.

[quote]At the risk of appearing xenophobic... "Only an American would think of that".[Mogzy/quote]

I'm a Canadian. But I do reside in the US now. They must have finally gotten to me.

[quote]Either that or someone's been watching too many X rated horror flicks! (or is it now NC-17? Someone told me you guys replaced the X with that).[Mogzy/quote]

I don't know what we've done.

And yes, I was joking about the whole killer thing. Just satarizing all the paranoia surrounding MySpace and what-not. (Yes, I have one.) But I think getting really sick pics back is a definite possiblity, so be careful.

Filmshooting

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