A specialist design company based in Holland has launched a new set of playing cards decorated with camera-related icons that’s aimed to appeal to photography enthusiasts. The Dutch Card House Company, which creates artistically designed playing card packs, has already hit its funding target on Kickstarter and aims to begin shipping in May.
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The cards come in a box decorated to resemble a Canon L lens with ribbing and a red ring printed on a black background, while the cards themselves feature a host of common icons on the reverse, including the flash symbol, a self-timer, microphone, custom settings and white balance pictograms.
The face sides feature the regular pictures we’d expect from a set of cards but with more hidden icons incorporated into the designs. The Joker is cleverly merged into an exposure mode dial, with the letters and the suit symbols sitting where the PASM icons would normally be found.
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There are two versions of the packs, a standard black design and a limited edition of 1000 sets printed on white. Additional purchases include a zip-up carry case and a coin pressed with an exposure mode dial on one side and an aperture iris on the other — though it only has six blades.
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The standard set of cards costs €9 while the white set is €14, the coin is €7. The case, which comes with a set of each version of the cards and the coin, costs €35.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen playing cards with a photography theme, as an earlier Kickstarter campaign funded a set called The Photography Deck which incorporated photo tips and handy guides to the basic principles.
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