Off Topic, but Totally Cool!

[bmattock]

You have to check out this link:

On Camera Creation, Standards, and Custom-made Cameras

I'm convinced there's no need to reinvent the wheel if you can use the existing standards. The following thread standards are well-known and aren't patented: M39 with a 28.8 mm baseline, M42 with a 45.5 mm baseline, bayonet joints K and recently M (since the time its patent has expired). The shorter the baseline is, the more lenses can be fixed to the camera with the help of appropriate adapters. The thread-to-thread adapter is easy to make (you only need a lathe for it), and the thread-to-bayonet adapter is simpler than bayonet-to-bayonet, so I suggest we go back to the M39 standard. To all appearance, lenses of movie cameras with a shorter baseline will be also possible to fix if we use a barrel-shaped adapter, as the lens mounts of these lenses are usually under 30 mm.

You need to see this guy's work! Somebody not afraid to hack up their digicam in pursuit of fun and photo nirvana!

With three focusing points and three motors we can get an autofocusing system about as functional as century-old road cameras.

This guy is blunt - tells it like it is!

OOOOH, look what he did to a cheap Casio digicam! Fun!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Todd.Hanz]

Umm........................why?

 

[Todd.Hanz]

O.K., I take it back after I went to his site.

Todd

 

[taffer]

Thanks for that link Bill ! Amazing products of imagination... And btw that Contax AX referenced there was incredible, so many great innovative designs that bite the dust, that's unfair...