Gallery: Awesome Pop-Up Book Is Also a Working Camera
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*This Book is a Camera* is a new book by Kelli Anderson that is also, yes, a camera.
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Open the book, and a series of folds and cuts and tucks made on the pages within yield a working pinhole camera that stands up on its own.
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To capture a picture, pop a piece of photo paper into the camera, line up your shot, and manually pull up, and then drop, a shutter.
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Because the book-camera uses a primitive photo-taking method, the book quickly becomes a crash course in optics, i.e. the behavior of light, and, by extension, how cameras work.
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This is what Anderson says she loves about working with a material as simple as paper: It can put the physics of light right in your bare hands.
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A botched photo Anderson took with a demo pinhole camera that actually had two holes. The duplication error actually helps explain how the pinhole works, by revealing how light transfers images to photo paper.
