Freelens By Building Your Own Bellows
Some of the comments about the freelensing quickie we posted were deeply concerned with dust.
One way to solve the dust issue is to make a small step away from 100% free free lensing. The plunger lens is one way of doing so using a... well... a plunger :)
Another way of freelensing without concern for dust or flare is by building bellows. DC Watch has a nice video tutorial that you can follow along with a template PDF.
And if you feel comfy with slightly broken English, you can follow the instruction on the machine translated post from DC Watch.
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THANKS!
I am currently working on a bellows for a scanner/camera, this was published at just the right time :-)
Bad image quality, waste of
Bad image quality, waste of time..
Some interesting links there,
Some interesting links there, I'll be doing some exploring when I'm on holidays methinks!
RE: DIY BELLOWS
Im really not sure why you would bother with this? If you want to take terrible images. Just don't focus ! You'll get the same result without wasting your time.
thank you!
thank you!
not a waste of time
Bellows are for controlling you focus plain. Using fence posts diminishing into the horizon as an example; normally you would have the post that you focused on sharp and the sharpness would diminish beyond that. With bellows, you can control it so all of the posts are in focus. Hold a sheet of paper in front of your face and imagine it as a plain of focus. With a normal lens, the axis is fixed as flat/parallel in front of your lens, like the sheet of paper. With bellows, you can twist and turn that that axis (paper) any way you like giving much greater control.
Anyway, hope this opens you up to giving the bellows lenses a shot.
Bad image quality
If this isn't interesting, and you're getting only "bad image" quality, then your not really the kind of person for DIY photography.
Great post! Thanks!
this. lol at people raging
this.
lol at people raging about image quality. Did you see what he pulled his lens from??
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