I have a random project to use a disposable camera to take some photies, I figure the most interesting thing to do would be something one wouldn't do with a real camera. My initial plan was to strap it to the bars and ride around for an hour and see what took my interest. Any better ideas? Constraints, I must be able to reach the shutter and the winder once per shot (safely)...
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Ideas: connect disposable camera to bike
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Is this a one-off project?
If not you would be better off with a cheap digital camera - even a mobile 'phone.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Yeah, one off. Has to be a disposable for the challenge.
Posted 12 years ago # -
I'm sure duct tape is the solution to any such dilemma...
Posted 12 years ago # -
Is it for one of these disposable-camera-24-challenge sorts of thing?
Disposables aren't the smoothest things to wind so you'd want it somewhere where pressing reasonably hard against the thumbwheel and turning it isn't going to have any adverse effects on bicycle-control. If there was a portion of bike in the frame of each shot it'd give the results some context. Jam/tape it into a downtube bottle cage so that it looks past the front wheel?Posted 12 years ago # -
Something like that.
I was thinking fairly far down the head tube so the front wheel was in the frames, problem is getting at the shutter whilst not crashing on Edinburgh potholes. High enough on the down tube would work, its just like getting a bottle out the cage. Would need to be offset so that too much of the frame isn't lost to the bike.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Mount it on the spokes?
Mount it somewhere watching you, rather than it watching where you're going?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Mounted on the spokes would be pretty cool, but firing the shutter could be treacherous.
Facing me might be worth a try, not sure about getting all my chins in mind.
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@steveo - I thought these cameras often come with a little clockwork self-timer? I wasn't suggesting you stick your hands in the direction of the whirling spokes to try and take your picture!
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"Mounted on the spokes would be pretty cool, but firing the shutter could be treacherous."
Tape the shutter-button down so that it would release as soon as re-cocked by the film advance wheel, then jam it in the spokes with something mounted on the appropriate bit of the fork to tweak the thumbwheel forward a bit with each revolution?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Perhaps you could highlight the disposable/throw-away nature of the camera by cycling around Edinburgh taking photos of various growing piles of rubbish. (not that I've seen any but keep reading about it in the Hootsman)
But you'd better be quick because Lesley Hinds has pledged (via the Metro letters page) to fix the rubbish problem by the end of the week.
Posted 12 years ago # -
"Lesley Hinds has pledged (via the Metro letters page) to fix the rubbish problem by the end of the week"
She did that last week (too?)
Posted 12 years ago # -
"the Metro has pledged to fix the rubbish Leseley Hinds problem by the end of the week" is a more credible anagram, I fear.
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