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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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No, filters like pieces of glass that fit on the end of your lens to give the image some sort of quality or change the light coming in to the device in order to match film types or lighting styles.

Like when you see a video where all the fluorescent lamps are greenish? They have the wrong filter or film type in the camera.

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Apparently you missed my complete discussion about Cokin, the above was humor.

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I did, yes. You seriously expect me to read something?

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No, but I did seriously expect you to know that I likely knew what a filter was! I have failed up to now.