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A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed

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Re: A database of analog cameras that can be 3D printed

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Post by prmoustache »

zx8080 wrote: post #4

Film cameras should require metal parts and high precision shutter mechanism. How about those? I doubt it can be printed.

Only if you want a fairly compact camera supporting various shutter speed including some very fast ones, high speed films and lenses, and the kind of subjects that you want to take picture of. Once you are going much slower things can be less precise.

You can make a camera out of a cardboard box really. That won't do for a wildlife or olympic games professional photographer obviously.

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Post by dgxyz »

zx8080 wrote: post #4

Film cameras should require metal parts and high precision shutter mechanism. How about those? I doubt it can be printed.

Ignoring the other comments, if you want to make a film camera that isn’t a pain in the ass, yes. Otherwise you can get away with quite a bit.

You’re not going to get 1/1000+ shutters and all that though.

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Post by zimpenfish »

CarVac wrote: post #2

I have an abomination that I printed years ago that adapts an Instax SQ1 to Hasselblad lenses (and has an RB67 focusing screen on a viewfinder next to the Instax for composing and focusing). It's sooooo impractical but the results are so fun. The process is to compose, focus, put ND filter on, swap from finder to film body, half-fire the shutter, pull out the dark slide, fully fire the shutter, push in the dark slide…

Watching Kyle McDougall[0] take his medium format photos is a soothing experience (but I know full well I would not have the patience for medium format.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@KyleMcDougall/videos

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Post by afandian »

nom wrote: post #16
GJim wrote: post #14

"analog" cameras? One brings to mind the common misconception of the young that all physical media (including dad's CDs) is analogue, and that 'digital' refers only to 'computer' data.

Yes, these are all analog cameras, are they not?

I learned the word 'analogue' as meaning something like 'there is a change in the medium in proportion to the signal being recorded'. And digital as 'the signal being recorded is transformed into a numerical value which is stored on the medium'. The consequence being that changes to the medium in the analogue domain (tape wear, attenuation etc) directly affects the signal, whereas in the digital domain the signal can potentially be re-created with no loss of fidelity.

I think chemical film process fits with that description.

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Post by afandian »

GJim wrote: post #14

"analog" cameras? One brings to mind the common misconception of the young that all physical media (including dad's CDs) is analogue, and that 'digital' refers only to 'computer' data.

I don't know if "the youth" are doing this, but if they are, the generation before probably bears a lot of the blame!

Digital Tax! Digital camera! Digital marketing! Digital distribution! Digital radio! Digital TV! Digital download!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/Digital

All of these had previously had a digital component to them. It was just the proximal user-facing part being digitised (or the introduction of a computer) that gave the marketing department license to use the word 'digital'. Maybe it was over-cooked a bit.

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Post by gonzalohm »

GJim wrote: post #14

"analog" cameras? One brings to mind the common misconception of the young that all physical media (including dad's CDs) is analogue, and that 'digital' refers only to 'computer' data.

Analog in the sense that they are mechanical objects. I have never heard of analog CDs. Analog would be vinyl
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