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Tiny Perfect Handmade Cameras


Clockwise from top left: Panoramic Camera, View Finder Camera, 35 mm Single Cut Camera, Micro Camera. Photos courtesy of Hyun-seok Sim

Sculptor/metalsmith Hyun-seok Sim crafts these incredible pinhole cameras from sterling silver and brass. Their name, CamerAg, is a portmanteau of camera plus Ag, the scientific abbreviation for silver. Each one is built entirely by hand, right down to the screws and dials. They all take pictures, but that’s almost beside the point. Many of the cameras lack viewfinders, meaning that composing an image relies on luck and chance more than anything else. But who cares? These work just fine as eye candy. To see the entire collection of 23 cameras, click here.

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2 Responses to “Tiny Perfect Handmade Cameras”

  1. Angela Riechers says:
    January 13, 2010 at 2:16 am

    Thanks for the corrections, sorry I missed that the first time around.

  2. Hyun-seok Sim says:
    January 12, 2010 at 3:19 am

    few things to change.
    1- they are made of sterling silver, gold, glass and steel(I didn’t use brass~~)
    2- only 3 cameras are pinhole cameras so most of them has a lense.

    thanks~

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