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
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.
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
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.
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
Joey, I've been looking to get/make a tilt/shift lens, where did you see the turorials?
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.
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.
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 :-)
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.
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
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
