Entering into the Polaroid Matrix at Maker Faire (video)

Sometimes it is the simplest questions that result in an important innovation — other times it’s more that they are just plain fun to reply to. Take the only asked by Grand Rapids, MI-artist, Sam Blanchard: what would the Wachowski Brothers’ bullet-time effect appear as if, were it shot on, say 20 Polaroids , rather than a room filled with expensive digital devices? The solution, naturally, are located within the Polaroid Matrix, a circle of cameras on display at Maker Faire in Big apple, this weekend. The Kickstarter success story arranges the cameras right into a circle — a topic may well be sat within the middle, or the cameras could be oriented outward, to take a panorama of the encircling environment. Once the rig is fired up, the cameras make that familiar Polaroid warm up hum — times 20. The real photographing happens almost straight away, with 20 flashes. The photographer walks round the circle and collects 20 photos, that are bound right into a photographic flipbook. Try a video of the Polaroid Matrix in action, after the jump.

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