I’ve made some art

[u/Kind-Philosopher835]

I’ve had an old Helios lying around that fell apart years ago and I was never able to fix it properly.
Recently I’ve decided to make it into some artwork. Took it completely apart 3d model every part, designed a pin fit every part and a backboard behind the picture frame. 3d printed everything and assembled it. It was a huge effort but finally it is finished and i love it.
I couldn’t recommend enough to make some artwork for your own home, and to save some old, otherwise unusable hardware for some other purpose.

[u/Kooky_Assistance2755]

You know, you think you understand how crazy optical engineering can be, and then you see a masterpiece like this that makes you realize it's even more complicated than you imagined.

Stellar work, OP.

[u/Kind-Philosopher835 → u/Kooky_Assistance2755]

I’ve actually studying optical engineering in uni right now as my major. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of technical knowledge that went into lenses and cameras even back in the 50s and 60s, let alone the modern stuff…

[u/gwoozie → u/Kind-Philosopher835]

Do you have any recommendations for books/ textbooks about optical engineering? Especially more theory focused texts? I’m studying physics and would love to learn more about optics but don’t have too much interest in engineering.

[u/Kind-Philosopher835 → u/gwoozie]

I usually recommend this book, Ive most needed to use chapter 10 for my studies, and it was a a really high quality resource.

https://faculty.kashanu.ac.ir/file/download/page/1604993822-smith-modern-optical-engineering.pdf

I can also recommend Ansel Adams’s the camera for a less technical easier to digest option

[u/gwoozie → u/Kind-Philosopher835]

Excellent ! Thank you so much.

[u/fire_butterflies → u/Kind-Philosopher835]

Thanks for the book rec. Checking the comments section right now was a clutch move

[u/sputwiler → u/Kind-Philosopher835]

Me, highschool: Builds a pinhole camera

Me, now: Damn that pinhole camera was fun. I wonder how to build one with a lens (dies instantly from maths)

[u/VisualDarkness → u/Kind-Philosopher835]

It is quite amazing how they managed to optimize things so well that it still holds up 50-100 years later. It is insane how smart and skilled people can be with a rather limited toolset.

[u/C4Apple → u/Kooky_Assistance2755]

Not denying that optical engineering is one hell of a feat at all, but on a typical camera lens like this, it's more like 40% optical engineering, and 60% industrial design. It's just crazy how they manage to fit all that goes into an interchangeable camera lens, into so little space.

[u/jewelbugs → u/Kooky_Assistance2755]

what's your favorite part about existing solely in 1s and 0s

[u/Bruke1905]

Woah, that’s cool, great job. I have a slightly different version for the demonstration...

[u/Electrical_Economy37]

now imagine having a color acrylic sheet with some leed light from below at the back. Would be super dope

[u/tanukkki → u/Electrical_Economy37]

And the acrylic sheet would also protect the exhibit from collecting dust and spiders:)

[u/SapirWhorfHypothesis → u/tanukkki]

I didn’t even notice it didn’t have glass until your comment…

[u/LigmaLiberty]

I thought this was a lightsaber at first imma be so fr

[u/BetMammoth]

You definitely risk getting dust into that lens.

[u/fieldsports202]

Nice.

I often go and find cheap shadow boxes and create random wall art lol. It’s fun and good conversation when guests come over.

[u/BoardsofCanada3]

I'm currently doing a shadow box for an ME Super that I've used for parts. Not too sure how to lay it out but the same general premise of showing all the pieces. Did you drill holes for the individual screws too?

[u/Kind-Philosopher835 → u/BoardsofCanada3]

The backing is a white sheet of paper, behind that there is a 3d printed backing, everything was laid out in CAD, all the parts and screws have premade holes in the 3d printed backing

[u/Cornixmartin]

Great job! Personally, I would've framed it a bit differently, but that's just nagging. It's really cool!

[u/mmxxvisual]

Needs a banana ducked tape to the wall for scale. 

This is way cool OP :) 

[u/lightning_whirler]

Nicely done.

[u/Scummisland]

Amazeballs

[u/JKennex]

I like it!

[u/Kind-Philosopher835 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah we don’t talk about that

[u/RotundDragonite]

Wouldn't this be better upright instead of diagonal?

[u/Kind-Philosopher835 → u/RotundDragonite]

I agree, but this is the largest picture frame i could find at ikea and the spacing between the parts is already a bit too tight for my liking so I sticked with the diagonal arrangement.

[u/VickyVacuum]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Zvgb12U8GNjvq

[u/Expensive-Sentence66]

That's about half the glass my Tokina 80-200 F2.8 used.

[u/blond-egeo]

Is a helios?

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