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Wow super cool. I’ve always wanted a Hasselblad SWC, but now I think I want what you built even more ;)
Thanks! It was surprisingly challenging to get right, in fact that body is slightly misaligned somewhere (possibly the lens…).
Also, I noticed a lot of photos of the olympics on your flickr page. Are you in West Seattle, too, by any chance?
>>> …them myself with a manual tapping tool. Well, that didn’t go well, it was hard to keep the tool straight, the threads were loose, and broke few taps rendering the holes useless. Cheap taps from Amazon?
The haters will hate, but tap guides are great (e.g. https://biggatortools.com/v-tapguide-faqs , but even a block of hard wood with a clearance hole drilled in it works fine). Unless you're tapping something super tough (306?), Amazon taps are fine for hand tapping. Go in straight, use a good lubricant.
I've examined cheap taps under a microscope. Maybe they are of varying quality, but the ones I got had burrs all along the cutting edges. A tap that I borrowed from a machine shop was flawless in comparison. So maybe the middle ground is caveat emptor.
Another trick for tapping is to use something pointy in the drill chuck to center the tap after drilling, assuming you've clamped down your workpiece in a drill press or mill. This works for really big taps when you don't have a guide for them. Likewise the tailstock of a lathe can be used for this purpose.
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…
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.
You're saying you don't want to hear how someone then stuffed AI into their camera?
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…
I think people really underestimate how nice it is for the lenses to be smaller and not just for the camera to be.
No picture from the camera. Stoic.
The hobby of caring about cameras sometimes overtakes the hobby of taking pictures.
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You're saying you don't want to hear how someone then stuffed AI into their camera?
Imagine a camera that uses one AI to transcribe the image the sensor picked up, and then another one to use the transcription to generate the image.
Paragraphica is a lensless, sensorless camera that, when you press the shutter, compiles a bunch of data with GPS, location, time of day etc, and feeds it to an image generator to create the image.
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/
Also recommend using the BOSL2 library with OpenSCAD - it turnes an already very powerful tool into something insane:
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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/
BTW, if you want to design some models for 3D printing but the only thing you know to do is to code, you can use OpenSCAD & program the obejcrs into existence: https://openscad.org/ Also recommend using the BOSL2 library with OpenSCAD - it turnes an already very powerful tool into something insane: https://github.com/BelfrySCAD/BOSL2
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…
The volume for physical cameras is low and shrinking. The companies can't justify putting nearly the same investment as smartphone companies selling 100x the units can.