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Create A Tilt-Shift Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Feb 14, 2012 by Udi Tirosh 5 Comments

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Flickr user Maciej Pietuszynski (blog) had a great shower when the idea of combining a shower head, a rubber glove and an old nifty fifty into a unique tilt shift lens.

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Loving the idea of free lensing, yet hating the idea of the lens accidentally crashing into the ground, Maciej came up with a clever concept of utilizing a shower head for its smoothness.

The Nifty fifty has undergone surgery to separate the bionet from the lens and install an advanced tilt-shift mechanism in the form of a shower head held in place with a heavy duty rubber glove. Hit the jump for the full pictorial.

*Keep in mind that the mechanism on old 50mm lenses goes deeper than modern crop-factored lenses, so if you are building one on your own, watch the lens-to-mirror distance carefully.

Pictorial

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

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Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Create A Tilf-Shit Lens From A Shower Head A Rubber Glove And a Nifty Fifty

Of course, if you are too afraid to dissect your own lens, you could always get a lens baby.

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Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.net

About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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