3D Printed Camera

<i>I started by hand at 400 grit and went up to 12000 grit by increments of 200 and a set of micro-mesh polishing pads. This process took about 5-6 hours per lens and a lot of elbow grease.</i> Not really sure that qualifies as 3d printing.<p>However, I like the fact this was not one of those 3D print a case, insert bit&#x27;s that do all the work. Well beyond film.

He almost lost me at &quot;I wanted to find out if there was a more authentic photo at the intersection of ...&quot; Um, no, there isn&#x27;t. Technology is irrelevant to authenticity. And if he is suggesting that filters make things inauthentic, I think he&#x27;s full of himself. I despise the reduce-contrast-so-the-picture-looks-like-a-bad-pollution-day filter that&#x27;s popular everywhere, but it&#x27;s not inauthentic. No more than upping the saturation on landscape photos is inauthentic. Even Ansel Adams applied a lot of post-processing to his (analog) prints, as I found out when I read &quot;The Print.&quot;<p>The actual 3D printing project is pretty interesting, though.

Props for making the files available. Too often I see these types of projects and the author refuses, which I find silly.

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Those interested in DIY camera should also check this project:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.focalcamera.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.focalcamera.com</a><p>The Focal Camera is an open-source modular camera prototyping system.<p><i>By offering these designs free for non-commercial use by anyone we strive to improve the ability of making handmade cameras for everyone. It allows for complex cameras that might seem daunting at first, such as SLRs, stereo or panoramic cameras and countless others, including even custom lens design.</i>

WRT Convex lenses: he could flip the lens upside down to allow gravity to pull the pools of resin off the lens.<p>Also, he may be able to spin it on a surface, like what is done for coating silicon in order to spread the resin evenly across the surface.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webnemo.uniroma2.it&#x2F;new&#x2F;img&#x2F;spincoating.gif" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webnemo.uniroma2.it&#x2F;new&#x2F;img&#x2F;spincoating.gif</a>

It would be interesting to test the camera with normal glass lens, and test the printed lens with a normal camera. This project has two completely separate challenges (make the camera and make the optics), and these challenges are very interesting by themselves.

this is super cool! I&#x27;m especially impressed he built his own lens too. it would have been really easy to justify using an existing lens

Someone should 3D print a 3D printer that 3D prints 3D printers :D

I wonder if it is possible, for small lenses, to laser-cut a piece of acrylic to get the convexity in one dimension then flip it 90 degrees and cut a second time to finish the job. That would still be in the DIY spirit, albeit no longer a 3D-printed solution.

Really cool!<p>How much would something like this cost to print in one of those printing sites?

Cool project, but the pictures look like you walked down the street randomly pressing the shutter. Would be interesting to see some photos that had some thought put into them.

Cool project!