Camera Halloween Costume Actually Takes Pictures (VIDEO)

Haven't figured out your Halloween costume yet? Tyler Card is here to make you feel worse about it. His costume not only makes him look like a Nikon D3 DSLR (on its own, not that cool), but it actually takes pictures. All you need to become your very own human camera is a Dell computer, a camera, cardboard, and some mad skills. Aside from the fact that being a human camera is awesome, this is also a surefire way of being the life of the party.

WATCH how Tyler made his costume:

Making of the Camera Costume from Tyler Card on Vimeo.

Now watch him put it to use:

Comments

[Massconfusion]

12:05 PM on 10/28/2011

Well done!

[carllafong]

08:03 AM on 10/27/2011

Suddenly I've lost all enthusiasm for my ghost costume.

[Abelardo Perez]

06:58 AM on 10/27/2011

awesome!

[hummuslover]

01:23 AM on 10/27/2011

This can't be D3. D3 has a built in grip and doesn't have a pop up flash...

[Greg Holden 123]

07:18 AM on 10/27/2011

Nerd Alert!

If you're a true nerd you'll know that I mean that in the best way possible.

[regulargal]

12:45 PM on 10/27/2011

I'm pretty sure it's a D90.

[J242]

12:59 AM on 10/27/2011

That's interesting if it "actually" works. It's more than likely all he did was have a tablet setup as the back display with a single image being shown. The "flash" shown was an effect, it certainly did not come from the "flash" above him and it didn't come from the device taking the picture either.

It's clever but that video only shows a clever trick, not a costume that has ACTUAL functionality.

[JBS]

01:25 AM on 10/27/2011

You must be a Canon shooter.

Watch the "Making of" video. It does actually function.

He's got a real camera inside the costume "lens" operating tethered to a laptop CPU with the dismounted display remoted on the back of the cardboard box. You can find all the cables you'd need to connect it up at Fry's. Any half-way competent techie ought to even be able to put the laptop back together after recovering from the hangover Nov 1.

The strobe up top is connected to the camera by a hot-shoe remote sync cable and sits behind one of those Fresnel page magnifiers you can buy from the book stores.

Cheap radio remote release off eBay and you're ready to rock.

It's pretty clever. I hope he used gaffer's tape and not duct tape.

[J242]

01:48 AM on 10/27/2011

"You must be a Canon shooter."

Lol, actually yes but that has nothing to do with it. ;)

"Watch the "Making of" video. It does actually function."

The making of shows a series of stills with a laptop re-arranged off it's hinges and one photo of a DSLR connected to the laptop. That isn't a proof of concept, it's a picture of a camera connected by USB to what "might" be a working laptop.

All I'm saying is that the VIDEO does not necessarily show anything actually working. Maybe it does, but the added "flash effect" on top of it doesn't help the credibility is all. it's a REALLY cool idea and one that is not very difficult to implement. I'm just saying that the videos are not proof of it actually working as claimed is all. Look at the photos in the video, all from what appears to be the same settings on a camera yet the costumed guy himself is in one. If it was a photo of him in a mirror, that would make sense but that's not the case. ;)

[J242]

01:48 AM on 10/27/2011

(Sorry for the 2nd post being necessary.)

"The strobe up top is connected to the camera by a hot-shoe remote sync cable and sits behind one of those Fresnel page magnifiers you can buy from the book stores."

Hitting a strobe is not the same thing as wiring it all together. Again, I'm not saying this isn't possible or even that he didn't do it. I'm just criticizing the "how I did it" video as an explanation as it could also be done via trickery without actually being functional. ;) Are you getting what I'm saying? ;)

"It's pretty clever. I hope he used gaffer's tape and not duct tape."

Without a doubt, it's incredibly clever! However, I must respectfully throw down the proverbial gauntlet if you are speaking ill about my beloved duct tape! lol

[Erin Tucciarone]

03:12 PM on 10/26/2011

pretty sweet!