I never thought that having a broken digital camera could actually make me feel lucky, but when my Sony DSC-F717 crapped out on me last year, I found out how to make the best out of a bad situation.

The first problem was actually a fairly common malfunction that only affected the viewfinder, but I was not aware that Sony would be fixing it free of charge. Then last spring, the entire CCD stopped being able to focus and made for some very distorted photos.

On top of having an excuse to buy a new camera, I also discovered a love for a new type of photography: broken camera photography. Since the CCD in the camera could not longer correctly interpret data, it just makes a jumble out of everything it sees, but the results are quite astonishing!

Examples

The following sets of images are a series of the same image at normal, double, and quadruple magnification:

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I really love the effect and pixelization, or “Random Abstract Digitization”, as I have named it. Unfortunately though, I haven't found a use for it other than desktop images. If there is a printer that could get the detail I need, I would love to start printing these on large canvases.

Any ideas on what I can do with the images?

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I'm very pleased to be able to announce the Grand Opening of Watermelon Sauce's first creation: Scribbls, a collaborative drawing community designed to combine drawings into outcomes—no talent required.

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On Monday, I attended MinneWebCon ’08 at my alma mater, the University of Minnesota. While I will admit to not being one that really goes out of my way to attend conferences, this one didn’t disappoint.

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I'll admit it, I've never really been that good at reading and replying to emails. But not too long ago I received one that really caught my eye. Apparently my site has been mentioned in a book! It's not much, just a link reference for the Gallery Project icons that I made.

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Personal feelings about Opera aside, it was interesting to see the race to 100/100 in the Acid 3 tests. It appears that Opera won, though they are using private builds and have yet to release a public version.

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