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This Itty Bitty Digital Fisheye Camera Has a Lo-Fi Aesthetic

Chris Gampat
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02/18/2013
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Last Updated on 02/18/2013 by Chris Gampat

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ERMMGGAWWDD!!! It’s so tiny and so cute! Look at it: it’s like a little cyclops. Greg Dash has created a campaign on IndieGogo to produce the world’s first ultra small and ultra affordable fisheye camera. The little lens has a 170 degree field of view and can shoot anything from 2MP to 12MP images. Plus it can record HD video and includes a time lapse mode from 1 second to 7 days. Yes, we just said seven days: that’s some truly insane battery life. No word on anything more about the lens except that it is an f3.5 wide angle and that the sensor is a CMOS sensor.

But in order to do it, he’s going to need to raise £35,000 to cover the costs of manufacture of the miniscule camera. Backers will be rewarded with a camera from one of the first shipment of cameras at a reduced price. You can read more about the project on IndieGoGo.

 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.