Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
Cameras are quite fascinating little boxes of magic. Light goes in and does fancy stuff to end up captured as an image on film. That’s pretty much the extent of my understanding of the process. Lucus Anders on the other hand understands the process very intimately as he creates cameras from scratch.
People have been building cameras since… well, the creation of cameras I guess, but I haven’t seen one done quite like this.Warning: sometimes Lucus cusses and makes off-color jokes in his videos.
Here we get to see the camera that he’ll be building. It is a considerable step up from the wooden cameras he has previously built.
To start things off, he needs to mold and cast some parts. Interestingly, he’s using a 3d printer for his prototyping, so you can learn a thing or two about 3d printing for cast aluminum parts.
The body is constructed from bent and brazed aluminum. He does take an interesting first pass of creating deep grooves on a mill before bending, allowing his body to be much thicker. He also uses a common machinists trick that might be interesting to those who haven’t seen…
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