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>We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques can’t possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality. However, you can 3D print something like a lens, as [Luke Edwin] demonstrates, and get all kinds of crazy pictures out of it. [Luke’s] lens isn’t really a lens, per se. There’s no transparent optical medium being used to bend light, here. Instead, he’s printed a very fine grid in a cylindrical form factor, stuck it on a lens mount, and put that on the front of a camera.

Archive: https://archive.today/8gnzl From the post: >>We seldom talk about 3D printing lenses because most techniques can’t possibly produce transparent parts of optical quality. However, you can 3D print something like a lens, as [Luke Edwin] demonstrates, and get all kinds of crazy pictures out of it. [Luke’s] lens isn’t really a lens, per se. There’s no transparent optical medium being used to bend light, here. Instead, he’s printed a very fine grid in a cylindrical form factor, stuck it on a lens mount, and put that on the front of a camera.

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[–] • 2 pts

Everyone thinks they came up with something new just because the way they built it maybe was "new".

It is a common problem in the world. Yeah, this is a filter not a lens and not even close to what a lens actually is.

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Wake me when this faggot is grinding and polishing glass like the fucking Germans. Leica has been around for eons for a reason, so has zeiss. I’d not trade some of my old zeiss 5-25 for anything. There is better glass in the world but this works just fine out to where I lost my gear in a boating accident.

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You really can't beat Zeiss multi-coat glass. Hoya makes a good multi-coat UV filter if you need such an item.

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The japs made good glass, and better than most, close to German Quality, but only close. They are a proud honorable group of zipper heads.