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If shooting is the motive, the instrument of choice may as well spend its time of rest holstered. We find this camera case from Roberu to be classy and unique. It is designed as a fit for mirror-less camera bodies, and as such makes a nice fit.

We’d have trouble believing that this is a camera at all, but it seems Steve Irvine is a master of making pinhole cameras in unlikely shapes. The functional pinhole cameras do require some expertise to capture and manage images, but they more than make up for it with their unorthodox, classy looks.

Going back to the haydays when the sun shone, Polaroid has unveiled the Z2300 instant digital camera. The days of the film were long lost with the advent of digital, but Polaroid apparently hopes to cash in on some instant physical copy love. The device boasts a 10-megapixel digital camera with a 3.0-inch LCD screen. [...]

Ikea’s going cardboard with digital photography. Like their other products, the idea of this camera is also quite simple. The cardboard camera runs on two AA batteries and has enough juice to shoot 40 pictures. Ikea showed off the camera with press kits at the Fuorisalone design expo in Milan, and it would appear that [...]

Blackmagic Cinema Camera has a design so elegant, at first look we thought of it as a rendering rather than a real product. Geared straight towards movie makers, the camera has a 2.5K image sensor and includes a 2.5-inch SSD that stores data at 5MB/frame in RAW 2.5k. The camera can work with both, Canon [...]

Harmless Hunter is a fairly simple name for what looks like a rifle. But this thing won’t hurt anybody, it just takes the part about shooting pics a bit too literally. Harmless Hunter “KillShot” has a camera built into the rifle’s scope that shoots a photograph every time you press the trigger. It sounds like [...]

A good artist knows how to spice things up.Chilean artist Diego Castillo Roa used a wall decal to make the circular window look like a camera lens; the execution is flawless. The image is a submission for Lipton’s inspirARTE contest. Via PetaPixel

If our love for photography had its way, we would give everything a touch of photography. Well, it isn’t an idea as far fetched as it seems. While the idea of playing chess with camera lenses may be a bit too expensive, getting our caffeine fix in one doesn’t seem all that bad.

Apple iPhone has some serious computing power, and most of us point and shoot photographers use phones for shooting pics anyway. A phone with more capability to take shots would probably go down well with everyone. Apple iCam concept from Italian designer Antonio DeRosa goes down the same road, imagining a future of modular cameras [...]

For fans who would like to go back to the ancient age and make movies on a 36mm roll, the Lomokino is a camera that does it the old way. You set the 36mm film rolling with the crank of a handle, and the camera will capture about 50 seconds worth of video on the [...]

How cool is that? A camera costume that actually takes photos. Tyler Card’s costume is in the shape of a Nikon camera, has an LCD display and can actually take photos. Which we guess makes it one of the best costumes we are going to see this year.

If you are a professional photographer, or even if you take photography seriously, you’d want to keep your hands steady and have a good camera in your hands. If pranks are what you are looking for, something unusual will do, like this camera concept that is shaped like a slingshot.

We say beauty lies in simplicity, and the beauty of technology lies in making arduous looking tasks easy. Paris based designer Charlie Nghiem has created the Rotor Digital Camera. The concept does away entirely with buttons, using a stacked cylinder for operations instead.

StaudingerFranke is a photography studio specializing in CGI and post production. Their portfolio is full of impressive photographs like the one here. This image of a polaroid camera mid-explosion stands out for its sheer style. Via First-Stop, Flavorwire

Time lapse videos are cool, but most of us lack the skill and patience to actually sit down with the camera, have it configured and shoot the complete scene. For the likes of us, it is technology to the rescue with this camera doing all the hardwork. All we have to do is push a [...]