PistonPinHmm… #FilmPhotography really isn't cheap. 🤔
If I bought a medium format camera*, I could burn all those monies a lot quicker – efficiency! 🤪
* (Which I'm not going to do.)
This camera was given to me; I didn't buy it. This is something totally different! 😅
I gave the ground glass, Fresnel lens, and mirror a quick initial cleaning. Considering that the viewing lens hasn't been cleaned yet, that's already a pretty decent interim result, imho. 🙂
The fruits of yesterday's project: a new "glass" for the lightmeter of my #YashicaMatLM. 🙂
It had already been missing when I got the camera. And since lightmeter glasses for 63-year-old cameras are surprisingly hard to come by, I decided to try and produce my own replacement part, which – of course – involved #FreeCAD and #3dPrinting. 😄 ("Details" in the following post.)
It's not perfect yet, but already a lot better than a missing one!
I designed a die and punch in #FreeCAD and 3D-printed them using the material with the highest temperature resistance available on the filament shelf.
I then cut the clear window part of an old CD case into smaller pieces. I heated them one by one in the oven @ ~130°C and pressed them into the die using the punch.
After a little bit of trimming (using a 3D-printed saw guide) and sanding, another point is checked off the to-do list. 😄
More parts for the #YashicaMatLM on this #FreeCADFriday. 🙂
This is version one of a quick-release strap lug. It works quite well! But I also have another version in mind: a more heavy-duty one.
#FreeCAD #3dPrinting #Yashica #filmPhotography #mediumFormat
The new lugs are quite a bit more complex but also quite a bit more trustworthy. 😄
Happy coincidence: with the way these little spring arms are oriented, attaching the lugs to the camera requires very little force, whereas removing them definitely requires an intentional amount of force. It seems very unlikely, that they would come off by accident.
#FreeCAD #3dPrinting #Yashica #YashicaMatLM #mediumFormat #filmPhotography
Siff@PistonPin Nice! 👍 This is a great way to make fully transparent parts!
Sergi@PistonPin this is so clever!
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Andrew Lewis Workshop@PistonPin brilliant fix - I have exactly the same thing to do on my own camera. It's currently in my "at some point" pile. I was going to try designing a clear resin print and polishing it, but I might do it this way instead.
@LewisWorkshop Thanks! 🙏🙂 I'll tweak the files a little bit, write up a few words about the process and share the parts on Printables.
I would imagine that if you print the die and punch in resin, you could get near-perfect results straight out of the box.