Paper Shoot | GIZMODO.cz

There was a point in time when DSLRs reigned supreme, and when carrying a camera by your side was a matter of pride rather than an inconvenience. Nowadays, with smartphone photography rapidly taking over the world, the need to carry or own even a camera has heavily subsided. However, the simplicity and beauty of those good old days is something technology can never replace. If you’re someone who loves taking a trip down memory lane, and still maintains a soft spot for cameras in your heart – then the Paper Shoot camera could be the one for you.

Designer: Paper Shoot

Inspired by the Leica camera, the Paper Shoot is a delicate gadget with a card-like exterior, and a thin digital camera running down its center. The pocket-sized camera is built from eco-friendly materials, making the product a pretty sustainable one. It has only one button – which functions as the On/Off, and shutter button, allowing the camera to maintain a minimal and uncomplicated form. It features a 16MP sensor and has been amped with automatic exposure compensation, and white balance.

The adorable device can record 1080p videos for up to 10 seconds. It even has four color filters for you to get creative with! So, you can click pictures in black and white, sepia, as well as a blue tone, besides your normal colored effect. It also supports Standard and WiFi SD cards up to 32GB.

Much like its aesthetics, the features of the Paper Shoot Camera are pretty simple and sweet, however, the true star of the camera are its old-school charm and delicate beauty. It’s a great option to capture your favorite moments on, especially when you’re taking a break from your smartphone. It’s a smart and fun way to reduce your screen time and dampen your reliance on your smartphone.

The post This Leica-inspired camera is a minimal + eco-friendly device with an old-school charm first appeared on Yanko Design.

With the popular rise of Buzzfeed’s Tasty, Goodful, and Nifty videos on social media, we’ve gone from becoming just consumers to DIY enthusiasts. The concept is much more valued than the product, and we’re increasingly being told that we can build, rather than buy. As an addition to last month’s DIY Bose Speaker, here’s the Croz, a DIY Digital Camera that requires minimal effort to assemble, but rewards with a powerful digital image-capturing instrument that you can build with your hands!

The Croz comes with a bare-bones aesthetic that’s the result of stripping away everything unnecessary (even a fully molded outer casing) to give you a camera with a completely “raw” (get it?) aesthetic that makes it look almost like the audio cassettes from the yesteryears. The camera’s casing is literally a laser-cut piece of acrylic bent into shape to form not only a secure casing, but also one through which you can curiously observe the internals of a digital camera. The Croz, although a fully digital camera, cuts back on the camera’s display too, giving you the analog experience. The viewfinder (of sorts) is bare basic too, being literally a rectangle cut right into the circuit board (ingenious idea!). The Croz works on 2 AAA (triple-A) batteries and all images clicked get instantly transferred to an external SD card, which one can then pull out and view on a PC.

The beauty of Croz is that it pulls one back to being a much more carefree photographer. The viewfinder allows you to compose a shot, but you’re always eager to see what the real photo looks like! The Croz even comes with color settings, giving you the freedom to choose the kind of style you want to photograph in. It even comes with fisheye and wide-angle lenses to help broaden your vision!

Designers: Paper Shoot & Hylé Design.

BUY IT HERE: $128 ~~$142~~

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