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According to Bjrn Karmann’s website, the Paragraphica camera generates a stream of text that is then transformed into a “photo” using censors and geolocation information, including weather data.
The red item, which according to the photography website Digital Camera World resembles a TV aerial crammed where the lens should be, substitutes the lens on the camera’s normal point-and-shoot appearance. According to Karmann, who spoke to the Evening Standard, the peculiar component is only a sculpture that was inspired by the star-nosed mole, a creature that is blind but uses its snout to visualise its surroundings.
Karmann stated on his website that the camera will produce a scintigraphic representation of the description when the trigger is depressed. “The viewfinder displays a real-time description of your current location.”
Three physical dials, located on top of the camera body where knobs that would typically regulate things like shutter speed and film speed would be, allow photographers using the device to influence the outcome of the image.
According to Karmann, the first knob functions similarly to the focal length in a conventional camera lens but is intended to restrict how far the camera will seek for data. The dial’s schematic reveals that the distance appears to span from just about 10 feet to infinity.
The A.I. the image diffusion’s noise seed is controlled by the second knob. Models incorporate Gaussian noise into the AI picture synthesis process, which causes the image to appear. Noise, according to Karmann, is “comparable to film grain.”
The third slider, dubbed a “guidance scale” by Karmann, controls how closely the A.I. model adheres to the created text prompt.
A Raspberry Pi 4, a single-board computer approximately the size of a credit card, and a 3D-printed casing with unique electronics made up the components Karmann utilised to build the camera. The Stable Diffusion API and Noodl programming languages are used to execute the software.
In his review for Digital Camera World, Sebastian Oakley stated, “Quite frankly, it’s the strangest and stupidest thing I have ever seen, yet I am in awe by its engineering.” However, this isn’t photography, could it?
Source: Artnet news
