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11/26/2006 01:11:30 AM · #1 |
Hey guys and gals
I'm curious to see what kind of mods or lenses people here have personally made. I'm interested because I just got into reading some really interesting articles on making your own camera lenses
Although I didn't fully create the lense, I made an adapter out of my 5D body cap for some old film lenses. (Drilled a hole in it, it sits far from the sensor so it has weird, extra-shallow DOF
I plan to make a tilt/shift lense next and have read some tutorials on it.
I'm wanting to know if there were any other ideas out there
Did this with a FD 1.8 lense on my drilled-in body cap
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11/26/2006 02:09:43 AM · #2 |
I am planning on making a monocular - this is a rather popular thing to make in Russia, since you can use one of the most widely available lenses from the Soviet era - the Helios-44, which can be had for less than $10 off eBay. I've seen many instructions (all of them in Russian, regrettably). If I remember correctly, they involve disassembling the lens, removing all elements except for the front one.
The result is a lens with only one element, which gives you selective sharpness effect, with only the center sharp, and a very dreamy OOF effect for everything else, very much like LensBaby, except that you can't move the sharp area around the frame, and it costs only a fraction of the overpriced LensBaby. |
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11/27/2006 04:49:28 AM · #3 |
I have been tempted to try a digital holga. It looks fairly straight forward.
//www.litratista.org/2006/04/29/homemade-lens-part-1-eos-holga/ |
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11/27/2006 11:01:17 AM · #4 |
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11/27/2006 11:18:54 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Joey Lawrence:
I plan to make a tilt/shift lense next and have read some tutorials on it.
I'm wanting to know if there were any other ideas out there
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I've been looking at the lensbaby 3G design, and I've been thinking that a similar design with an enlarger lens would work quite well as a pseudo T/S lens. |
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11/27/2006 11:33:18 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Joey Lawrence:
Hey guys and gals
I'm curious to see what kind of mods or lenses people here have personally made. I'm interested because I just got into reading some really interesting articles on making your own camera lenses
Although I didn't fully create the lense, I made an adapter out of my 5D body cap for some old film lenses. (Drilled a hole in it, it sits far from the sensor so it has weird, extra-shallow DOF
I plan to make a tilt/shift lense next and have read some tutorials on it.
I'm wanting to know if there were any other ideas out there
Did this with a FD 1.8 lense on my drilled-in body cap
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Joey, I've been looking to get/make a tilt/shift lens, where did you see the turorials?
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11/27/2006 11:48:15 AM · #7 |
If you feel abitious you may want to try some variation of my recently completed mini-view setup. Key issues are outline in the text and the procedure is straight-forward.
PS. If anyone needs a Mamiya bellows to get started I have a spare that will be going on ebay soon.
//www.pbase.com/mcmurma/miniview_project |
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11/27/2006 12:08:23 PM · #8 |
Michael,
Thanks for posting the link to your mini-view setup blog. This is something I've been wanting to try.
Originally posted by mcmurma:
PS. If anyone needs a Mamiya bellows |
PM'd you on the bellows :-) |
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11/27/2006 12:23:38 PM · #9 |
I've experimented a bit with making my own lenses, but haven't had much success yet. Here's a fun shot that I took without *any* lens attached to the camera. I held a lens from a Pentax 35mm film camera in front of my Canon Rebel XT, and then tilted it relative to the sensor plane.
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11/27/2006 12:29:07 PM · #10 |
I've been thinking about making my own LensBaby knockoff, as well as something similar to the bellows-based mini-view idea outlined previously by  mcmurma. I've got a crapload of unmounted optics; singlets, doublets, converging, diverging, you name it. Gotta scour thru 'em to see what might be usable. Winter Project :-) |
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11/27/2006 12:31:04 PM · #11 |
| Just a note for Nikon users, the PB-4 bellows has swing & tilt built into the bellows. So all you need to do to get a workable T/S lens is to add a lense that has an image circle large enough for movements and can focus to infinity that far from the sensor. There isn't a huge amount of movement , but enough for most circumstances. |
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11/27/2006 12:34:02 PM · #12 |
Here's a link to a neat homemade bellows-type lens. I really like this guy's stuff.
Message edited by author 2006-11-27 12:35:01. |
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11/27/2006 12:38:33 PM · #13 |
| Here's another really good link, complete with step-by-step instructions. |
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11/27/2006 01:35:24 PM · #14 |
| Here is a link to a PB-4 bellows mod. |
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12/03/2006 02:09:00 AM · #15 |
Im new to everything photography related so im not sure if this is what your talking about, but i thought it was cool, and the photos were pretty cool too, made everything look like minatures. Im gunna try to make one once i get my 350. //www.dennisonbertram.com/hackmaster/2005/02/tilt-shift-pc-lens.htm
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12/05/2006 09:30:58 AM · #16 |
clickable link for the lazy
Message edited by author 2006-12-05 09:31:11.
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