I just did an interview with DIY Photography about the Easychrome camera. It was a great opportunity to drop some insight into the laborious hacking process behind the project and leak some future plans…
“World In Infrared is a project spanning over 30,000 kilometers, with an IR modified camera – Easychrome – that flew over the Atlantic Ocean, across North America and down to the South Pacific to capture the world as it it seen in the infrared spectrum. Having elements of both Infrared hacking and somewhat of a crowd-sourced project we asked Steven Saphore, its maker a few questions…”
What about those old film slide frames?
The yellow cellophane isn’t exactly an ‘optical quality’ filter… It’s a very imperfect piece of plastic (It’s not even that transparent either!). Because of this, the quality of the photos were exceptionally evocative of lo-fi 35mm film photography. What better way to compliment such a photo than by framing it with one of my Dad’s old slide covers from the 60’s?
You can read the full article here!
