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>>170541 Remember what I ( I know, anon, could get to be a tripfag later maybe?) mentioned about some weird ass camera, with a shutter calculated to run at around 1/200s, with an absurdly high aperture lens?
That was me. hehe. I'm using crystalline casting resin for the lens, making blanks with it and lathing them down by hand and some tools (no power tools though).
Since I don't have access to glass or more complex crystalline materials, I'm not able to even make doublets (or dont know how yet at least) but that means my high aperture lens is going to have some massive chroma, very likely shitty resolution and whatnot. Worth a shot though isn't it?
So far, I have the focal plane shutter mechanism down, and a fairly good idea on the construction of the aperture ring, but I have to finish the lens first to figure out how big my camera really is going to be.
It's -looking- like a 50~mm lens, and it's around 52mm in diameter so it's probably going to be fairly bright. I cannot -know- however, what the exact measure will be though, until I finish grinding and polishing this plastic. (edge not beveled/cleaned yet, it's still a bit sharp, but might keep it to be able to hold the lens in retaining rings etc etc.)
In any case, still have a long way to go, but I'll post up more about it once I'm closer to the finishing line. :)
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