According to a project submitted to LEGO’s ideas forum (LEGO Ideas) in 2022, LEGO fans could soon get – unlike previous models – a fully functional photo camera with 35mm film made from 595 LEGO bricks. After the Pentax 17, this could be the next analog camera to be released.
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So far, the “LEGO ZH1” project is only a proposal, but it has already received remarkable response from the community. Others including DPreview have reported this,
The LEGO ZH1 is a fully functional analog camera. The camera was created by Xuan Huang. He can already take pictures with it, As can be seen from his Instagram account,
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Hoang bought various sets of clamping brick brands for the camera, As he explained to Fast Company. The most difficult task was to recreate all the mechanisms with Lego bricks, since the bricks are larger than the small metal gears, axles and springs of normal cameras. Making the trigger was particularly difficult. Also, differently coloured Lego building blocks have different transparency, making the designs more difficult.
3 year old project has attracted renewed attention through media reports. There are still 28 days left to gather the required 10,000 votes on the Ideas platform. However, this is very likely, as currently (as of 3:25pm IST on August 19) only 605 votes are missing and more are being added every hour. There have already been 250 comments from the community about the project. If the project receives enough support, it could go into official production and offer LEGO fans around the world the opportunity to build their own functional camera.
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