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Printers. Screens. Stuff. Diana / Diana Products. Build Your Own Lenses. Nikon, Canon, Leica, Pentax, Sigma, Tokina, and a host of other lens makers are all striving to bring you the sharpest lenses with all optical aberrations reduced to the minimum. That’s too bad! Because with lenses, as with life, sometimes it’s the imperfections that make things interesting. The image on the left was shot with the imperfect optics of a homemade lens. Exploring the soft, dreamy world of DIY camera lenses in surprisingly easy. There are two components necessary for a homemade camera lens suitable for use on a SLR or DSLR: the optics (to focus the light) and the mechanics (to hold the optics in place and hopefully provide a method of adjusting the focus and aperture).

The Optics Any lens that focuses light (a double convex, plano convex, or positive meniscus) can theoretically be used as a camera lens. Notice that I used the word theoretically above. So unless you already know the focal length of your lens, you should measure it. Starting Simple Adjustable Focus Results. The Leica Camera. Boutiques eBay.fr - Achat et vente SLR Magic, Photographic Accessories, neuf ou d’occasion!

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