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Depth of Field Adapter on Steroids

Started 8 months ago | Discussions thread
fferreres Veteran Member • Posts: 8,199
Re: Time to make Faboky...

ProfHankD wrote:

Although I'm not really thrilled about camera obscura-based adapters (I've built more than a few before), I can see there is some interest in an extreme bokeh adapter, so I just ordered parts for making one that should be a very easy build. The tentative name for it is Faboky (pronounced fah-bow-key).

If this works, the total build cost should be less than $150 using only commodity components, including an (optional) integrated 20MP Canon PowerShot programmed using CHDK. No exotic old lens nor other hard-to-source components are needed. As a whole, the camera would provide a zoom setup with DoF equiv. to less than f/0.5 and virtually perfect bokeh because the "a" stands for apodized. It also should be relatively portable and lightweight (note: I didn't say small), although you'll probably need to use it on a tripod. We'll just have to see if this works as well as I think it will; right now, I'd give it about 75% chance of having sufficient image quality.

This is a bit of a distraction to the too-many-other-things I'm already doing, so it might be a while before I have something detailed up on Faboky...

Sounds very promising and fun, especially if designs so that any mortal could build one.

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