This 6mm thin camera fits inside your wallet
Jan 4, 2016
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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Cameras have been getting smaller and smaller with each passing year. This particular one might just take the cake though–at least in the thinness category.
Meet the Paper Retro Camera, a 6mm thin cardboard camera that’s fully capable of capturing 1.3-megapixel stills, 720p video and audio.
With a still image resolution of 1,280 × 1,024 pixels, it’s not going to blow even the junkiest of smartphones out of the water, but it’s an interesting novelty camera nonetheless.
The Paper Retro Camera features an LED light, an on/off button, a mode button a microSD/SDHC card slot and a built-in USB 2.0 port for directly plugging into your computer.
The camera weighs only 43 grams and is slightly larger than your standard business card.
Below is video and stills captured with the camera.
You can pick one up here for 3,299 yen (approximately US$28)
[via Photoxels]
Gannon Burgett
Gannon Burgett is a communications professional with over a decade of experience in content strategy, editing, marketing, multimedia content creation. He’s photographed and written content seen across hundreds of millions of pageviews. In addition to his communications work for various entities and publications, Gannon also runs his multimedia marketing agency, Ekleptik Media, where he brings his expertise as a full-stack creator to help develop and execute data-driven content strategies. His writing, photos, and videos have appeared in USA Today, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Autoweek, Popular Mechanics, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, DPReview, PetaPixel, Imaging Resource, Lifewire, Yahoo News, Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, and more.
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