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12/12/2005 01:51:01 PM · #1 |
"In a cool little feat of extremely low-tech hardware hacking, Photocritic has created a macro lens out of a Pringles can. According to the article: "with less than £1 worth of equipment, a little bit of sweat and tears, you can build yourself a surprisingly good macro lens". The results are astonishing."
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12/12/2005 02:00:05 PM · #2 |
I actually did a pin-hole experiment with a body cap while in college. Had some very interesting results. Had the body cap of my 35 mm SLR with a small pin-hole punched in it as my lens. LONNNNNNG exposures, but DoF was infinite.
I like the experiments. Actually been toying with the idea of placing a CCD inside a film canister and trying to interface it with a PC, to make a digital version of the film canister pin-hole cameras everyone has tinkered with.
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12/12/2005 02:03:00 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I like the experiments. Actually been toying with the idea of placing a CCD inside a film canister and trying to interface it with a PC, to make a digital version of the film canister pin-hole cameras everyone has tinkered with. |
Better hurry up while you can still get film cans : )
You might consider adapting one of those tiny wireless security cameras -- low-resolution but cheap. |
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12/12/2005 02:08:24 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I actually did a pin-hole experiment with a body cap while in college. Had some very interesting results. Had the body cap of my 35 mm SLR with a small pin-hole punched in it as my lens. LONNNNNNG exposures, but DoF was infinite.
I like the experiments. Actually been toying with the idea of placing a CCD inside a film canister and trying to interface it with a PC, to make a digital version of the film canister pin-hole cameras everyone has tinkered with. |
This article isn't about pinhole photography as far as i can tell. In all the shots a 50mm 1.8 was used with the pringles can as a sort of extention tube. Pinhole cameras are pretty interesting though. You're sometimes working with F-stops in the multiple hundreds, and you can even make 1000mm or longer lenses pretty easily. |
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12/12/2005 02:09:40 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Better hurry up while you can still get film cans : )
You might consider adapting one of those tiny wireless security cameras -- low-resolution but cheap. |
Yeah, I've still got cans... keep small parts in them. Actually been thinking about taking my web cam apart and using its sensor, since I never use it anyway.
Think if I can write the software to make the pic from the sensor and include exif data that SC would allow the pics in challenges?
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12/12/2005 02:18:29 PM · #6 |
Should have been NUDE! lol
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12/12/2005 02:38:08 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Think if I can write the software to make the pic from the sensor and include exif data that SC would allow the pics in challenges? |
I think we'll take any file with valid EXIF data.
If you write it yourself, we might have you send in a sample file so we can see just how much "flexibility" you have with things like dates ... we'd probably have to discuss it ahead of time. Sure sounds interesting though! |
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12/12/2005 03:46:54 PM · #8 |
| This technique was recommended to me by a local camera vendor. With a roll of toilet paper. |
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12/12/2005 04:21:21 PM · #9 |
| dude. i am TOTALLY going to try this!! |
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12/12/2005 04:23:24 PM · #10 |
In college, my friend and I built a pinhole camera out of a 55 gal drum and used 16x20 paper as the film. It was a real PITA to load it int he darkroom, wheel it outside, set it up, take one shot, wheel it back into the darkroom, unload it and process the image.
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12/12/2005 07:45:11 PM · #11 |
I bet the detail in the images was awesome !
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
In college, my friend and I built a pinhole camera out of a 55 gal drum and used 16x20 paper as the film. It was a real PITA to load it int he darkroom, wheel it outside, set it up, take one shot, wheel it back into the darkroom, unload it and process the image. |
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12/14/2005 09:45:52 AM · #12 |
| i thought i'd bump this, as i'm going to try and do this in time for the shallow DOF II challenge and i thought others might like to do the same. :) |
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12/14/2005 09:56:35 AM · #13 |
| I have some extremely rigid cardboard tubes about 13" long x 2-1/2" diameter if anyone wants one. |
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12/14/2005 10:10:51 AM · #14 |
Excellent results!
Just think, if you had an old, broken lens you could butcher and possibly an old body, you could make a mega extenstion tube with working contacts to keep full functionality of the lens on the end!
Do extension tubes maintain the contacts for auto focus etc? I've never looked into them!) |
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12/14/2005 10:12:35 AM · #15 |
| i DO have an old broken 50mm lens that i am going to bust out and test this week. once my finals are over, this could be pretty fun to waste some time on. |
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12/14/2005 10:15:15 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by muckpond:
i DO have an old broken 50mm lens that i am going to bust out and test this week. once my finals are over, this could be pretty fun to waste some time on. |
OOOOOOhhhhhhh *Jealousy*
I love tinkering but don't get to do it much any more... Wife and son are too demanding!!! (love them to bits though!) |
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12/14/2005 10:31:13 AM · #17 |
Just a thought for the extremist, I just finished off a roll of wrapping paper. And now have a 3ft very heavy duty card board tube.
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01/03/2006 04:22:49 PM · #18 |
| THe link isnt working, has it moved? im interested in this. |
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01/03/2006 05:51:12 PM · #19 |
- also interested, have an updated link?
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01/03/2006 06:50:27 PM · #20 |
| This looks like it might be the same article. |
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01/03/2006 07:03:10 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by lhall:
This looks like it might be the same article. |
I really really wish I wasn't so lazy!
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