ColorSplash

The camera is meant to be an objective recorder of optical fact (stop laughing at the back). So the thought of a camera that alters the scene that it is to capture, for example by changing the colour of the light in the scene (and I mean really changing it) seems the opposite of what a camera is meant to be:

http://shop.lomography.com/colorsplashcamera/

This sort of aesthetic intervention seems somehow generative, in that the technology processes the input to create something new, but it's a real-world generativity, a generativity before the fact. I want a camera that projects halftones...

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