Dec 17 2009Man Builds Himself A Steampunk Camera
Howard Boys (that's the guy's name, not like the Hardy Boys) went and made himself a functional steampunk camera. This is it. It looks old and takes pictures. Just like your grandparents on vacation!
Howard Boys took things old school with this camera that he created himself out of soldered brass. Howard purchased the lens and the shutter and built the rest.
Nice, Howard -- or should I call you Mr. Boys? Yeah, that's pretty creepy, I'm gonna stick with Howard. Well, Howard, not to toot my own horn develop my own film or anything, but one time I made a camera out of a Quaker Oats canister. So, who's the master photographer now? Just sayin', I wasn't arrested during that Victoria's Secret catalog shoot for no reason.
Steampunk Camera: Guy Builds Own Camera Body [uberreview]
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Reader Comments
1. Trioxin - December 17, 2009 10:45 AM
First
2. Add - December 17, 2009 10:53 AM
Dam!
3. naas - December 17, 2009 10:56 AM
ppppppssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........
that's the steamy sound I hear when I see something steampunk, sometimes at higher frequencies than others depending on how big whatever I'm look at is
4. brian - December 17, 2009 10:58 AM
This looks neither steamy nor punk to me.... I declare this.... a TOTAL FAIL!
5. AaronZZZ - December 17, 2009 11:12 AM
This is not really worth mentioning... I mean if the guy did it for the hell of it cool, but why the hell should we care??? Unless your into Electronics made to look like its from the late 1800's. I agre with @4, its NOT operated by steam so there for it is not "Steam Punk".
6. naas - December 17, 2009 11:18 AM
@4 SP doesn't usually look punk, so I declare your declaration..... a HALF FAIL!
7. naas - December 17, 2009 11:19 AM
@5 SP isn't operated by steam, it mocks an era of machines that did.... HALF FAIL!
8. Closet Nerd - December 17, 2009 11:20 AM
@3 ".......depending on how big whatever I'm look at is"
THATS WHAT SHE SAID!!!!!
just sayin
9. MathTeacher - December 17, 2009 11:21 AM
@6, @7 The sum of @4 + @5 = FAIL to the power of them.
10. LSDiesel - December 17, 2009 11:31 AM
I'm glad he didn't just glue a bunch of gears on it and call it steampunk. This actually looks pretty legitimate.
Me+Nass+Closet Nerd = Awesome.
11. Richard McBeef - December 17, 2009 11:31 AM
stoop.
Steampunk, by definition, is fail.
I am going to build an actual steam engine powered skull fucking machine and I will have a team of oxen drag it over to the first-tards house for the trial run. I will stand near it with a top hat and monocle. As it fires up and begins thrusting I will exclaim, FIRST!
As in the my steam powered skull fucking machine is the first to penetrate Trioxin's skull. Get it?
12. Ollie Williams - December 17, 2009 11:34 AM
@10
Missed one.
13. Closet Nerd - December 17, 2009 11:39 AM
@10 I'll drink to that!
14. naas - December 17, 2009 11:39 AM
@10 look what you did to Ollie... http://runningmylife.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/img_0776.jpg
15. naas - December 17, 2009 11:41 AM
@10 I think you better give him one of these..... http://www.ewritermagazine.com/July%202006/tiger%20hug.jpg and say sorry
16. naas - December 17, 2009 11:42 AM
@10 before you get one of these.....http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/jump-bridge.jpg
17. naas - December 17, 2009 11:43 AM
awwww, linkfail
@16 http://ui08.gamespot.com/1735/failed_2.jpg
18. AaronZZZ - December 17, 2009 11:49 AM
@naas, I stand corrected. But still unimpressed with this camera.
19. AaronZZZ - December 17, 2009 11:50 AM
I am much more impressed with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steamtop.jpg
20. LSDiesel - December 17, 2009 11:58 AM
I'm Sorry Ollie. I was never very good at Math. Let's try this again
LSDiesel + Nass + Closet Nerd + Ollie Williams = Twilight-themed Orgy.
Wait, that doesn't seem right either....
21. naas - December 17, 2009 11:59 AM
@18, 19 nice, that laptop is some HQSP right there. Unarguably though it doesn't run on steam... The camera is ghettopunk compared to that laptop though, no argument there
22. naas - December 17, 2009 12:01 PM
@20 http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/jump-bridge.jpg no twilight, I can't do twilight.... the gay orgy part is fine though
23. naas - December 17, 2009 12:03 PM
...it's been awhile since Ollie's had one of his mouth parties anyways, even before it started getting cold outside
24. Closet Nerd - December 17, 2009 12:11 PM
@15 I thought you were gonna say he should give Ollie one of these (a hand job)...... just sayin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1hqcbEuMM&feature=player_embedded
25. naas - December 17, 2009 12:49 PM
@24 I'm sorry I haven't seen that link yet, youtube wants me to create an account before viewing it & I haven't done that yet
26. Closet Nerd - December 17, 2009 1:57 PM
I tried finding it through Google by searching "hand job video" and i got a lot of interesting results..... but i found the source where I saw it first.
http://gizmodo.com/5422917/according-to-this-commercial-we-all-need-and-deserve-handjobs
27. Bill - December 17, 2009 2:31 PM
I'm going to make a steampunk turd in the toilet. This shit is terrible.
28. atheistgirl - December 17, 2009 3:06 PM
WOW!
I so want.
29. Amber - December 17, 2009 3:13 PM
Professor Layton helped him with this one.
30. mtk - December 17, 2009 3:35 PM
I thought the whole point of Steampunk was to refashion modern-day electronic devices to look as though they existed in the Victorian era. Why this "Steampunk camera" is a legitimate failure is that the Victorians, y'know, already HAD cameras. And those cameras looked way cooler that this thing.
31. LSDiesel - December 17, 2009 3:40 PM
@26, I'm so glad I clicked that link. That was hilarious.
32. naas - December 17, 2009 4:12 PM
HA, 2 handjobs for $5!!!!
33. coalgrunge - December 17, 2009 4:47 PM
@30. Thank you. End of story, everyone.
34. Matt-Zilla - December 17, 2009 5:22 PM
@26
lolz
35. r4 dsi - December 18, 2009 12:03 AM
Hii Guy's,
I mean if the guy did it for the hell of it cool, but why the hell should we care??? Unless your into Electronics made to look like its from the late 1800's.
36. andyman - December 18, 2009 12:32 AM
We could just call him Ho Bo instead of Mr boys (pedophile) or Howard (Retard)...
37. Jaded Icon - December 18, 2009 8:43 AM
Yawn......meh
38. güzellik - February 14, 2010 4:25 PM
I am much more impressed with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steamtop.jpg