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I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by dylan604 »

solarkraft wrote: post #8

Oh, that effort. I’ve been thinking about putting an MFT mount on my RX100 to use it with more interesting lenses (I have it for the high frame rate capability) but concluded it to be way too much effort and risk. And then along comes a person with enough determination to build an entire custom case! Truly impressive.

I saw footage someone captured when they modified their Canon 1D to use a PL mount. They then mounted a 17mm, iirc, that in a slow shutter could capture as many photons as my shitty 20mm EF mount could do in a 5s long exposure in bulb mode. The front piece of glass on that 17mm was ginormous. I really wish I could remember the guy's name to find a link. He mounted that camera to the front of a fishing boat down the canyon river pushed by the current navigating in the dark with night vision goggles. The resulting timelapse was glorious.

There was something specific to the body of the 1D that allowed for the proper flange depth of PL lenses that the other Canon bodies did not work for this mod.

Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by BizarroLand »

Zak wrote: post #19
_aavaa_ wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Nintendo can patent game mechanics despite prior art, anything’s possible.

I'm sure a number of things are terribly wrong with the patent system. Amazon's one-click patent is another that comes to mind. Patents are for how , and the how there is "store the default payment and shipping info in a database".

I'm sure that some of these patents happen by slipping the examiner a few bands in the application paperwork. Afterwards it's on other people to defend themselves to the tune of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if they lose you can get an entire company and all of its IP, property, and money.

$5k under the table is a small price to pay for such potential payoff, not to mention the value of the chilling effect on competition.

It's unethical, seedy, shitty, banal, and pestilent, the kind of thing that only the most hellbound and soulless of sleazebags would ever even think of to do, but it's profitable.

Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by jagged-chisel »

abetusk wrote: post #22

A weird contradiction for the licensing [0]: > This project is open-source under the MIT License. Feel free to modify and use — but no commercial use without permission. [0] https://github.com/cristibaluta/Leica-G9ii?tab=readme-ov-fil...

I wouldn’t call it weird. But it’s unenforceable.

This kind of thing works better with GPL. General use falls under GPL. If that doesn’t suit your commercial use, contact the copyright holder for another license.

As it stands, I can use the MIT licensed project anyway I like, including handing it to a commercial entity for their use.

Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by CarVac »

blindstitch wrote: post #16
amelius wrote: post #3

> the lens should be as centered as possible. I wanted to avoid that horrendous look of cameras with the lens as close to the left edge as possible (Sony a6000, I’m looking at you here). Funny, the things some people obsess about :)

Practically and ergonomically I prefer a centered lens. Your hand has to reach less far to reach the focus ring and aperture control. Most slr cameras have buttons on both sides of the lens, so developing muscle memory is easier when those actions are split between each hand. Rotation of the camera is also much more natural. It also centers the lens' pov between your eyes, matching their parallax, which is really imp…

Huh? You reach towards the lens from the bottom left and thus a centered position puts a corner of the camera body in the way.

Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by srean »

_aavaa_ wrote: post #17
srean wrote: post #7

Any chemists or crystallographers out here? I recently got curious about whether nature solves the Bayer pattern problem and if so, how. Are there any 3 element crystalline compounds with the formula A_2BC with roughly same sized atoms for A, B and C ? If they have a 2D tiling that would nature's Bayer pattern.

Natured solved it in our eyes by doing non-uniform placements of rods and cones (rather than uniform fixed pattern) and then fixing it in “software”.

Agreed.

Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by zokier »

_0xdd wrote: post #20

This is amazing. It's such a shame that Olympus and Panasonic have largely abandoned the small camera market within the M43 system. I really wish another manufacturer would step up and build something similar to the GX85, which is still one of my favorite walkaround cameras.

Fujis X-E5 seems on paper very comparable to GX85? https://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/side-by-side?produ...

Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by giancarlostoro »

BizarroLand wrote: post #23
Zak wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure a number of things are terribly wrong with the patent system. Amazon's one-click patent is another that comes to mind. Patents are for how , and the how there is "store the default payment and shipping info in a database".

I'm sure that some of these patents happen by slipping the examiner a few bands in the application paperwork. Afterwards it's on other people to defend themselves to the tune of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and if they lose you can get an entire company and all of its IP, property, and money. $5k under the table is a small price to pay for such potential payoff, not to mention the value of the chilling e…

How many patents do you have? Or are you just making assumptions and defaming people who could very well do an honest day's work? I assume the people at the US Patent Office go through thousands of patents, I would imagine it can get pretty exhausting reading each and every patent, especially after you ran through hundreds of unpatentable documents. You literally have to look up prior patents, and make sure its not already a thing, and figure out, is this really the same or not?

Funnily enough, one of my former bosses has one or two patents on something really simple that he came up with. It's a really clever piece of tech that the military uses, stupid simple to implement too.

Re: I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it

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Post by buildbot »

s1mon wrote: post #13

As someone who's been doing mechanical product engineering for 30+ years, doing this as a first project is way more than jumping off the deep end. Impressive.

I’m just a hobbyist 3D user but I feel like I have good experience, been using Autodesk Inventor then Fusion since early high school…

I saw the level of detail in the model and am shocked. If this is truly their first experience with CAD/CAM they are a natural.

For example - here’s my home built camera. It’s massively more simplistic: https://blog.maxg.io/phase-one-swc/

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