Making a Camera

Deconstruct to define "the optical device"

What is seeing?

- internalizing - intuition - feeling

What is representing?

Discussions on the Camera

Terms:

- film - cinema - moving image - motion picture - video

Questions:

How does the camera shape what you make?

"Digital makes me want to shoot very sharp." (Sonia)

"When I make pictures I don't care if they are sharp or not." (Marieke)

shape of the camera

position of the viewfinder

- Is the viewfinder a division between you and the world?

- Sometimes the world is full of people. Sometimes, trees.

- How has it been to be without a viewfinder?

sound of the camera

weight of the camera

- "Carrying that at 6am in London in February. No more of that!" (Susanna)

"Where does the camera begin and where does it end?"

"When you reduce the amount of information, does it become more poetic?"

If we define information as FPS...

Devise an experiment to test an assumption you had about the camera.