
Photoreal · Capture
Vintage Camera
E♭5 on the minor comb. Its drum rings at 652.6 Hz.
Inside, a roll of film coated with chemicals that change when light hits them sits behind the lens.
- Shelf
- Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Sound
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0, MIT, BSD
Its note
Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 652.6 Hz, 82 cents sharp of E♭5, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

- 1653 Hz
- 2907 Hz
- 31138 Hz
- 41219 Hz
- 51304 Hz
- 61533 Hz
- 71566 Hz
- 81642 Hz
- 91765 Hz
- 101821 Hz
- 111890 Hz
- 121988 Hz
- 132095 Hz
- 142129 Hz
- 152216 Hz
- 162246 Hz
How to play
Tap it to take a photo with a flash.
About it
An old film camera. Inside, a roll of film coated with chemicals that change when light hits them sits behind the lens. Pressing the button opens a shutter for a split second, the lens lets in a picture of the world, and the film keeps it. Then a lever winds the film on to a fresh frame.
Tap it and the flash bursts, the whole scene whites out for a moment, and you hear the shutter and a stylized whoomph from the flash. Early cameras needed people to sit still for minutes; a modern shutter can open for less than a thousandth of a second.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Camera 01Turned into splats from the textured 3D model (tools/mesh-to-splats.mjs) with soft studio light baked in, recentered and scaled. The maker's and lens names printed on it were painted out. | Rajil Jose Macatangay | CC0 1.0 |
| Vintage Camera Flash Powder and Shutter (vintage-camera-flash.mp3) | Werra | CC0 1.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)



