Just in time for Christmas, an exciting and new, totally unique camera design. Made with toys, no less! Unfortunately, it’s one-of-a-kind, and the creator is not taking orders—yet.

Adrian Hanft’s 35mm Lego Camera is a fully-functioning pinhole camera, with an internal shutter and ingenious advance-and-rewind mechanism, made almost entirely with stock Lego parts. (He modified one piece for the rewind knob.)
See his site for some nice explanatory animation, like this shutter view:

There are also pics of an earlier model and a medium-format version here, and a link to instructions on how to make the medium-format model, here.

And for good measure, these Lego cams take great pictures, as seen in Hanft’s gallery.

I hope he starts production by next Christmas.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pm by along and is filed under Cameras.

5 Responses to “Leggo My Lego!”

beebs @ 2006-12-12 02:12:49 PM says:

no. way.

along @ 2006-12-12 02:15:07 PM says:

Way!

Rocío @ 2006-12-12 04:06:39 PM says:

WOW! That’s amazing!

Adrian @ 2006-12-12 09:36:45 PM says:

Thanks for the links and kind words. I don’t have any ambition for mass production on these babies, but if I ever change my mind I will let you know!

along @ 2006-12-12 10:01:31 PM says:

aww, that’s too bad. But great work in any case!