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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”.
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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/
It may be simplistic, but that's a cracking photo you've taken on it.
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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/
Wow super cool. I’ve always wanted a Hasselblad SWC, but now I think I want what you built even more ;)
The Panasonic GX series of cameras was very similar to what we see here, and prices for them remain elevated years past their discontinuation. I'm a little surprised they haven't introduced a new model in that lineup. The Fuji X-E5 also seems similar to this, though obviously with a different lens mount.
I have to say I'm a bit unimpressed with the efforts of the MFT consumer system camera manufacturers. Panasonic creates excellent cameras, they're so big it lessens the appeal of the smaller mount. OM makes cameras of the right size, but it's releasing new models really really slowly, with mediocre sensors. The OM-5 mark II is a lame rehash. Only the OM-3 is somewhat exciting, but it sacrifices too much in terms of e…
Title is misleading — if you read to the end, he did not end up with a usable camera.
No picture from the camera. Stoic.
The hobby of caring about cameras sometimes overtakes the hobby of taking pictures.
Wow! This is the kind of news that we want on hacker news in 2026. Amazing hacker ethos. The article could have been better with sharing some photos taken with the new camera.
Lovely project! I'm a software guy who in recent years does lots of CAD for hobby projects (mainly robotics) and orders custom machined parts (lots of sheet metal construction, occasionally milled parts) along with 3D printing.
I find parametric modelling very zen. Stacking operations is very Lego-like, like stringing up pure functions. Plus I can listen to podcasts while I model, but not while I write code - it engages the brain differently.
Now that LLMs are sapping some of the joy out of programming (I use the tools, they're productive, achieving goals and delivering user value is still satisfying, etc. - but the act of writing code is just more enjoyable than prompting, so it's a tad dispiriting that it's getting harder to jusitify) I also find that I get a lot of satisfaction from doing something with my hands. In some ways it's a safer space for technical creativity.
Can highly recommend hobbies like this.
I have to say I'm a bit unimpressed with the efforts of the MFT consumer system camera manufacturers. Panasonic creates excellent cameras, they're so big it lessens the appeal of the smaller mount. OM makes cameras of the right size, but it's releasing new models really really slowly, with mediocre sensors. The OM-5 mark II is a lame rehash. Only the OM-3 is somewhat exciting, but it sacrifices too much in terms of e…