Building a Next-Level Camera
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You are something else Matt - this is PHENOMENAL 🙌
Thanks Arun!
Imagine filming your videos with this!
Yow Mr whose the boss
@@PerfectMalcolm And colour grading in sepia, with the tonality and modulation transfer of a mid 19th century wet plate. Start the scene like a still life, and it would look just like a very old photograph. No cross-fade, no dissolve, the old photograph just begins *move!*
Mrwhosethe boss will rate the camera
As a photographer, this is absolutely incredible.
If I can ever find an old lens to use like this, I'm building one!
You could just get a ULF camera. It would probably be harder to get film than a lense but there are annual group buys out there.
Projection lenses in different forms. The fewer glass the lens have in it the greater the image circle. Meaning one glass have a huge image circle. allthougth not sharp to the edges
I'm building one and stuck in the Fresnel lens part. Finding them in the right size doesn't seem possible to me
@@tjleclair1994 old rear projection TVs have fresnel lenses on the inside of the screen
@@Swamp_Donkey_ good call!
Genius.
I hope a museum dedicated to Matt's inventions IS IN PROGRESS SOMEWHERE
The channel is a good start. Video museum of sorts. 😄
da vinchi
This one is not even an INVENTION. what are you all speaking about? he just use a big lens and some diy stuff//////////
@@Charlotte-ef9th "Erm ackshually, solar panels aren't an invention since they use light from the sun"
It already is and it is called Matt's Home
The most impressive thing he did was definitely folding that accordion it looked so crisp lol
This is slowly transitioning from a DIY channel into an engineering / automation / robotics channel with a thin veneer of DIY, as Matt gains more and more experience with power tools and 3D printing. Every build is more complex and professional looking than the previous one. I love it.
At this rate, in a few years he will be building Mars rovers and fusion power plants in his back yard.
XD
the wild thing is that it's still doable at home. Like cutting some metal and simple 3d printer maybe able the price range of some, but it's not absurd to have access to those kind of tools at a maker space or at home
Basically this is why he's called DIY Perks
the perks of diy is you can continue to create more and more amazing stuff
@@bFOURdwZEROlf Unlikely. His name is Matthew Perks. I suspect this is the channel name etymology ;)
If you can do it yourself the field doesn't really matter. Skills required to replicate this are not very unique, specialised or sophisticated for that matter.. Anyone can do this provided some cash and access to 3D printer. The hardest part is to source similar lens as those are very old and uncommon nowadays.
Matt in 2069: Today we're going to build a diy portable blackhole for everyday use.
AHAHAHAHAH correct!!!!!!
As you can see the space time is already curved nicely but you would have to be extremely close to observe the event horizon . Thanks to vignetting we need to add another fresnel lens and it will allow us to take a picture of the Hawking radiation.
mostly using 4D printed parts with an interdimensional printer
Fun fact: Even nuclear fusion is extremely inefficient. All other methods of energy production are dwarfed by the energy capable of being produced by black holes. The tidal effects that cause matter to heat up to extreme temps release tons of energy, making a black hole “dyson sphere” of sorts about 60% efficient, compared to nuclear fusion’s ~1% efficiency. Don’t believe me? E=mc^2
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As an ex film/tv/documentary cameraman & film maker with a deep interest in physics, I can say this is absolutely amazing!!!. I once owned a WWII aircraft camera lens which had a very long focal length (30" or so?) and a diameter of about 6 inches. I got rid of it years ago because there was no technology to make use of it again. but it may have had a higher spec than the lens you used Matt. Keep going you and your projects are priceless (yes that word has other uses)
Do you know if it would work if the diffusive film wasnt there?
@@WRGQWREDit wouldn't because light should print image at something to be seen. I'm about to try matte lamination film. I'm experimenting with lenses for a long time so i want to try it too
When I saw the reveal of what your camera did, my jaw dropped haha It looked so good it looked fake!
This is next-level. As a photographer and former camera salesperson, I really think some people would buy this. If you take it to a studio or portable studio the size isn't that bad, but the results.. Just wow.
I built one of these in 2013 with a Kodak Aero Ektar, which has a 5 inch imaging circle -- The whole setup was about the size of 2 loaves of bread. Large format lenses are easily found online!
I think he can sell it for 3000$ !
Yes, Photo studios and small-budget film makers could really benefit from this design...
@@ashkananisi5181 Although not a mass-produced product, I could see where some would want this, and your production would be maybe 10-20 a year...
As a large format photographer myself, I'd buy this in a heartbeat
This is such a fantastic project! 😌
35mm f0.4 it’s not even in the wildest filmmakers dreams… 🤩
Now it is.
Stanley Kubricks use of NASA's Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7?
@@tedf1471 Just in one movie...
It would be coool to see this Lens in low light conditions
@@mcb9644 indeed!
the image is so comfortably strange.. it truly is like nothing i´ve seen before trought a screen. its honestly feels like if i was there at the moment the images were taken. Amazing work, thank you for sharing it online (Sorry for my possible bad english, its a second language for me)
13:00 looks like a render!! Amazing!!
As a photographer, I'm incredibly impressed by the level of engineering, knowledge and problem-solving here
Awesome work Matt!
@miko foin *laughs in 8 and 35mm*
I actually think that he "gets" problems to solve them and get the video more entertaining and larger
it's because you're an artist, if you studied engineering you would find that trivial.
@@KahruSuomiPerkele Oh yeah, I don't doubt it, but I always find it interesting when engineering is used creatively !
@miko foin I think the slow one he used is better because its more precise
This is absolutely incredible Matt! As a photographer this is one of the most fascinating projects I’ve ever seen. Would love to build one of these one day! Fantastic!
The wide aperture has a really gorgeous effect. I am also a big fan of swirly bokeh , and this lens has a good dose of that too. It is quite similar to the effect of the Helios 40 85mm f/1.5, Zeiss Biotar 58mm f/2 and the Soviet Zeiss copy, the Helios 44.
@@slartibartfast2649 the costs associated with this build vs. the output you get is remarkable. Compared to what a pro lens would cost, the value this brings is incomparable .
@@raveenwijayasinghe7700 Adapting old projector lenses is another viable way which has the added bonus of being on a camera, rather than a massive box.
Exactly what you said ^
@@slartibartfast2649 good point 😊
I think people without an understanding of photography will truly gradp why this is so amazing. I couldn't stop staring at the paused photographs, they looked very ephemeral and strange but natural too, it's hard to verbalize.
Because we have seen this done before even in the late 1400s
@@romancotton8536🤓
wren just called you out on not getting around to releasing the build plans for this, now you gotta do a collab video where you help corridor crew build their own one and film something cool with it :D
Please please give me the build plan for this
I made a Build Log post about making the camera in DIY Perks forum. Hope you find it somewhat useful.
Which video
@@GauravSharma-dy8xv cant rememeber, i think it was one of there saturday react videos since theyre the only ones i ocasionally watch any more.
TH-cams says i posted this a month ago, so could be anywhere from 4 to 7 saturdays ago. So one of those 4 videos.
@@GauravSharma-dy8xv It's VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 121 during the Battleground segment
This is the absolute dream for weird lens lovers !
I want to test my weird giant lenses on this project so bad
Hope for a collab on this project🔥
Immediately thought this would be right up your alley, Mathieu!
Your channel is the one that introduced me to how much fun vintage and weird lenses are. Hope you guys get to do a colab one day!
I was thinking @Mathieu Stern is going to love this, and here he is!
I thought of your channel when I saw this project! Would love to see a collaboration!
I have always fantasized about extreme focal blur like this, and you pulled it off! Indeed absolutely phenomenal!
Oooh, I like your stuff!
@@NoxiousPluK me too!
focal blur in real time, more than just still image objects, if movie film lens, I would imagine any sort of camera would work as long it uses light at the media of use the more wilder types infra red, ultraviolet, I do like toy town look the this sort of lens gives 🙂
Ayy! Did'nt expect u here!
@@pseudoplankton7044 true! and seeing some of the only few trully original content creators watch each other is a rare sight xD
Wow this is actually such a good idea - us photographers obsess over sensor size because of the assumption that direct-to-sensor imaging is the only way to go. But builds like this demonstrate otherwise! The image quality is fantastic!
Absolutely awesome projects in this channel. I‘m completely stoked
agreed!!!
The most surprising thing about this is the quality you get from those Fresnel lenses. I thought they would degradate the image quality a lot, but at least in the video it seems fine.
He said about wedding photography. I’m still not sure how good would the still images look in detail, especially for prints.
@@makipri Looking at the video in 4k, the image on the subject seems to be pretty clear, while the background has a decent blurring effect to it. I imagine the hard part is making sure the subject is in JUST the right spot, and doesn't move out of the intended range to really get the full benefit
In theory, the bigger the projector glass the sharper it is when converted to a Full-frame or smaller. Instead of magnifying, it demagnifies. Quality is a factor, but even cheap glass can get reasonable sharpness
@@makipri The nice thing for wedding work is that it will really eliminate any issues with the venue for the formal shots. This would be wholly unique.
@@makipri because people pay to see the pores on their faces, not for the atmosphere the image captures.
As a photographer and videographer I can only say… “Damn, this is surreal”
Like he said, it feels like a dream. I was just speechless taking in some of the shots. I just wish we could see the uncompressed images
Hey Matt! that's incredible! you forgot to post the link for the download of the files, that's a rig I'm actually really willing to try!
Ditto to this
Matt, Wow. I am amazed at what your construction has achieved. In addition, to the astounding depth of field, the ability to capture this level of image quality (precision) through any digital format is a plus.
An amazing upcycle!
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
Translation: "When Matt Perks is involved, we get a kickass result."
What the f*ck
@@Kanyewestbiggestfan123 ???
Kick ass production level products
Nah the translation should be "When there's a hole, there's a way"
If I wasn't so stressed all the time, maby i would love life.
This is Amazing and it looks like you are shooting miniatures infact I knew that to get that effect the camera should be very big and thats what you just did here, I won't be surprised if you get approached by some production company to use this camera in music videos or something like that
Waiting, 😀
sahib lberwita vol 2 as a music video maybe ? 🤔 😂😂😂
Exactly what I thought. The tilt shift lens is just a trick in my opinion, not a true miniature effect.
Was thinking about this
Will the plans ever be linked?
doubt it. It has commercial value.
It looks like you built a camera but scaled up. So everything that is in human scale looks like macro through this giant camera! Amazing!!!
This, to me, is probably your most impressive project so far - and that's saying a lot. I never knew such a lens was physically possible to be used with a digital camera, let alone as a DIY project. I was expecting the image to be washed out and with extreme chromatic aberration, like most ultra wide aperture lenses (especially since the light must go through a film), yet it looks perfectly clear and free of aberrations. Incredible.
Why has nobody done this before? Sure, the size is somewhat impractical, but surely there are some niche use cases in filmmaking where it would be extremely desirable. And to think something so innovative was done not by a company, but by a DIY TH-camr!
it's a very niche usage ...very rarely used and when someone wants that specific effect, they usually rely on post-processing/green screen to achieve it
@@Ezio470 It’s not that niche. You have to think in terms of scale, use ability, and price point. Camera manufacturers still have to sell it and when the Red One and original Ursa was succh a beast on set to handle, this wouldn’t work in large scale productions. The Alexa LF is the closest digital equivalent I believe. But there are a number of film ways to get close to this specially large format going straight to negative. But if you’ve shot even stills large format, you know how much time it takes to actually setup the shot to take it. Not a quick process
@@STDavis-em1df the Alexa LF's sensor is the same size as a full frame sensor... 36.7mm x 25.54mm for Alexa LF vs 36mm x 24mm of standard "full-frame" mirror less cameras... So it's not really going to be anything special for this application. In fact the "medium format" GFX 100 would make significantly more use of this lens with its 43.8mm xx 32.9mm sensor, or better yet a Hasselblad H6DC with a 53.4mm x 40mm
honestly it's not even particularly impractical - movie production rigs can handle something like this quite easily.
in fact, this might be incredibly useful for film production.
The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
Man I LOVE this build SO MUCH!!! What an awesome idea and I’m so impressed by the results. I’d love to make something like this.
Hi wren
Do it dawg
do it!
let's see if i have the luck to get reply from Wren or not?
I betcha you guys can utilize this for an interesting corridor video. It'd be so cool see
Wonderfull! Being fotographer since 1976 and a cameraman since 1984 this is absolutely amazing. Thanks A LOT!
Didn't expect much (on the images I mean, your builds are always amazing) throughout the building portion of the video. Then the video it captured just blew me away. Very ethereal, strange, and weird. Mostly because I've never seen this quality in a video before. Very very spectacular
I would never have expected such nice image quality from such a system. And you almost just glossed over making those super clean paper concertina bellows! Fantastic work!
it is mostly because we are watching this at a very low resolution. My guess is that it isnt that good in the realm of 50MP cameras, but for video, even 4K, it is most likely enough.
@@AlainPilon I watched at 4k on a 1080p 24" screen. The quality was still vastly better than I expected.
@@clonkex that was exactly my point. These resolution are very low compared to what a medium/large format camera can resolve. So while the current setup degrades the image quality, the original image is so big that most of the flaws are invisible in video. But if I placed a Hasselblad in there to shoot a 100MP image, we would see the paper texture for sure. But as I said above, for video it is brilliant!
@@AlainPilon Ah, I think I see what you mean now, though I'm not really sure what "paper texture" you're referring to.
So to clarify, you said "watching this at very low resolution". As primarily a gamer and video consumer, I don't consider 4k to be "very low resolution". In fact I would call 4k "very high resolution". Perhaps you're a photographer and your comment made sense, but in combination with the fact that you don't typically "watch" photographs, it just sounded like you were either A) assuming I was watching at low resolution on my phone or whatever, or B) calling 4k video "very low resolution", neither or which makes any sense.
@@AlainPilon my guess is you are into print media? But yeah, 99.99% of people dont even watch on anything above 4k and majority of them watch on their phones. So this really works there.
Man... what is there not to love about this channel?
- Great video production
- Really creative ideas
- Skillful and inventive execution that actually works
- Really friendly presentation
I seldom leave a comment but wanted to say thank you for the amazing content!!
He's quite possibly one of the highest-quality content creators on this platform.le
@@jotham97 i think he also greatly benefits from the fact that he isn’t churning out a new video every week just to keep the algorithm happy. he puts in some serious thought into every build which is always appreciated
I think you forgot about his perfect voice which never stutters and should be used for every podcast ever. It’s LITERALLY CALMING to hear.
- Gives you the files to do it yourself.
This is awesome. As a photographer I was so impressed by the image that the lense produced. Amazing job. I'd love to see some videos in the future with this lense.
This is way too impressive, this should be sold to consumers since nothing like this is commercially available to general consumers right now.
Not practical just buy large format camera
@@romancotton8536 no I wont.
@@romancotton8536 That's also impractical lol. Medium format cameras are out of the price range for most people, and the biggest film camera sensors used in Hollywood are basically just full frame sensors but still cost $60K+
This lense has a stop -motion movie effect to it and its fully natural as if our ordinary world have become miniature enough for it to be captured on a 24-85 mm lense, absolutely stunning
I think you mean tilt shift
@@stowgood yes tilt shift effect in a more poetic and understandable definition, yet this lense did it without a tilt & shift cabablity
also sh*t i never thought someone would read my comment rather than having this much likes
Matt, you've gotta do a telescope project at some point. You've got some of the coolest diy optics projects out there, and I'd love to see what you could do with a telescope.
Zane Landers enters the chat
Yes! Telescope lens next!
Local british man puts James webb telescope to shame
@@lachychops2 "and don't get me started on the cost difference between the two"
I didn’t see the results coming. Superb images. The craft and attention that went into such unusual bellows then hits you. Thanks and bravo!
Bravo! I'm in the process of building an Afghan Box Camera and would love to shoot with this lens. Some of these images are reminiscent of the tilt-shift lenses. Imagine the fun you could have if this lens was mounted on a front standard that could do rise/fall/tilt/shift. That shallow DOF would make it quite a challenge. I picked up a different "barrel" lens to play with that's much more readily available, if anyone wanted to play. It's the Fujinon-Xerox lens that's used in some of their larger models, easily procured (affordably) through Ebay. This was an amazing rig build! I usually only watch photography videos, but I definitely need to give your channel a look. As someone who has built a few cameras already I certainly learned from this video. Thank you.
Makes everything look like a diorama or tilt-shifted. Absolutely insane and beautiful
Everything looks tiny when your eyeball is the size of a beach ball.
Thanks to Fresnel lenses this is kind of double tilt-shifted indeed
Just like you
@@Embassy_of_Jupiter flirting in a diy perks comment section??? Aw hell naw
@@edawg704 only the best and most smartest people come here
just like you
The miniaturization effect really stood out to me in the samples. Lenses already confuse me, but this just broke my brain. Thanks for sharing :)
Yeah! The boat for example really looked like a miniature model, I love it a lot
Reminds me of tilt shift photography
Absolutely GORGEOUS result. Stunning. The build and the photos. Well done.
11:58 what a beautiful shot. ✨
Downright astounding. I think a big part of the culture that goes with DIY is "nothing goes to waste" and this project sits at the epitome of that belief. This isn't just repurposing for the sake of saving something old (which is still a noble cause) but instead it's seeing the beauty in something that's old and forgotten and using that beauty to inspire something incredible. Art in it's highest form.
You made a good-sounding microphone, now a lens with incredible picture quality. I'm shocked. Imagine a company that makes such high quality products.
He didn’t make the Lense itself
He mad a lens lens.
@@realtimestatic Nor did he make the microphone itself. He used complementary parts around the base components to achieve the final results.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING. That unbelievable amount of depth of field !!!!! Has to be one of the best channels I accidentally stumbled upon while procrastinating at 3 am.
13:03 The lens you made makes this scene look miniature! AMAZING!
That reveal was literally breathtaking. This was your best project to date and I'd seriously recommend looking into making a commercial version of this. Releasing a how-to guide is great, but those kinds of results are contingent on good materials and really tight tolerances in a way that'd make a commercial version really valuable. This feels like it'd be a staple on music video sets.
Amazing work!!!
Thank you!!! I was thinking this would like this level of bokeh 😄
@@MStrong95 no
@@MStrong95 Practically and demand. Also there's not a lot of surplus camera sensors a out there because the sensor is the hardest part to manufacture, it's extremely sensitive to malfunctions and that is the reason why crop sensor cameras are much cheaper and therefore more popular, area of sensor means more material, which means higher chances of defective pixels.
lol.. no wonder Toneh showed up here
@@arunashamal 😂
Thanks for explaining how the first cameras worked! Incredible project! As all project of yours. Cheers, take care.
Duuuude!
This was AWESOME
Bro really built the blender camera irl.
On a serious note, this build is amazing and the subject seperation quality of the lense is amazing, if you were able to make this into a product I think a lot of videographers would love to purchase it.
very underrated comment
thinking the exact same thing
@@NirmalveerSingh th-cam.com/video/-4uzyhbDFas/w-d-xo.html
Tell me you don't know anything about the photography world without telling me....
ULF is a thing people have been doing for over a century. Capturing ULF images digitally is something people have been doing for over a decade.
@@benmiller537 curious how they do that? Is it all post-processing object detection wizardry or are there physical ULF video cameras with massive sensors / sensors stitched together for those prepared to pay? Or just more refined versions of the sort of rig from this video?
The incredibly large lens makes everything look like they're miniaturised
I love the look, throws my mind for a loop, thinking if the things shot are tiny or life-sized :D
It's called tilt shift
@@igbatious It produces the same sort of effect as a tilt lens, but by different means. The miniturization effect is caused by the depth of field to be much smaller than that of our eyes at similar distances. Our brains interpret far-away subjects having similar focus to the background as "large" and subjects with different focus as the background as "small" as these normally happen when things are far away from us and close to us. Far away things are bigger than they appear and our brain compensates in our perception, likewise really close things just look big because they are so close and the brain compensates.
When something that is actually far away appears to have a different focus than the background our brains interpret it instead as something viewed close up, and so our perception is changed to think the subject "must be" really tiny to be so close and yet so small in the frame.
Tilt lenses achieve this by laterally rotating the plane of focus to manipulate this look. The lens created here *actually* has the shallow depth of field.
@@joelsmith3473 The tilting *used to be* employed to *counter* the shallow depth of focus, by tilting the focus plane to intersect with the most of the faces in a group photo, or make it parallel with the ground, a table, a wall, or whatever.
These days, people know of the tilt lens as a novelty, used for the opposite purpose, to call attention to the effect itself.
@@igbatious it's not called tilt shift
I don’t really see anything to be “miniaturized”
Absolutely amazing! Great work. Gotta see a gallery of works made with this lens!
What wonderfully clear, precise, and elegant engineering. Bravo!
It's incredible how you make such complex things seem so easy.
The results are amazing. It's really like some kind of miniature scene.
The focus seems a bit off at times, but still really amazing results.
Upcoming video: "How to build a 500mm image sensor for direct to sensor imaging"
Good idea 👍
Yeah, basically, just add a mount for your camera brand, and voila! (Some engineering stuff needs to happen first, but you get it)
LS911 Large Format Digital sensor says hello
You might want to hit up SeanHodgins for this
With long time exposure, you could move the camera sensor over the whole area. Would have to be really static tho.
My old church used to have something like that to project song lyrics onto a big wall so that we could read them and sing along. There was a person there, near the "projector" that was switching the sheet with the lyrics every 30 seconds. It sounds so archaic to think about it nowadays. They removed it like a decado ago, and have installed a big, modern projector. I don't go to that church anymore, but this brought back some memories! Thank you, great video
please release the schematics for Corridor and the rest of the world
Which video
Mind is blown. This would be an amazing cinematic lens for movies. The shallow depth of field is a strength and a weakness but it is a very unique result that would work artistically for lots of things.
Don't lie, you're wondering how it would perform as an Astrophotography lens, aren't you?
@@JohnsontheFly oh god .. he knows too much 😂
I’m imagining some big budget movie maker seeing this vid and actually using the idea for a movie within a few years. Similar things have happened before...
My god, Matt. Those images are stunning. I've said this a million times but I hope that at some point you put up some of your creations for sale. I can think of quite a few photographers would absolutely buy this.
This man has an epic enthusiasm this is the holy grail of lenses for foreground and background separation
Should get a T ring to install the camera with the exposed sensor so you get as much light as possible on it without loosing light from the 2nd lense. You made beautiful work and an interesting film to watch
DIY perks's next video be like: "Today we are going to build a cost efficient nuclear reactor at home"
and then sequel will be jarvis(on a pi) controlling reactor power. 😍🤣
just couldn't unnotice your comment , have a good day!!!
*out of brass because why not
@@iuhere and then sequel with LTT - what if we drop it xD
Nice.
@@s.i.m.c.a we can repurpose the diy mic project shock absorber in the nuclear reactor for sure 😉
The result looks like tilt-shift photography, looks awesome
This is pretty impressive as is all your videos. The miniature effect here is pretty cool. Thank you for sharing!
I haven't even seen the lens results yet and I'm blown away. This is amazing stuff dude
WOW! As a photographer I gotta say I started watching this video very skeptically thinking you would get some horrible quality gimmicky result, but getting a 35mm f0.4 equivalent is actually pretty insane!!! You sir, amazing job!
wow... everything looks like a macro image. This is truly impressive, I was utterly underwhelmed at first but the final results speak for themselves. It's borderline magical looking.
Yup. Huge lens & image circle = everything looks tiny. It's what the world would look like to a giant. Pretty straight forward
This is incredibly well done for the manufacturing processes, im more than amazed
This is insane and i love every bit of it!
The miniature look it gives everything is so wonderful
I don't know what kind of formal training you might have, if any at all, but as a last year engineering student at one of the best engineering colleges in the world, I am absolutely floored. It is awe inspiring how you make such well developed builds. Their variety and detail, amazing. The insight and problem solving, amazing. The editing and scripting, amazing. I would much rather have spent a semester learning from you than some old guy with a million useless accolades. How you develop It is DIY, I guess, but you seem to have the brainpower of an entire division of engineers.
As someone with an engineering degree, college barely prepares you ready to do practical stuff. What he is doing is years of curiosity and practical experience, and a major desire to learn + be okay with failing.
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This DIY lens is incredible. That blur makes me wanna cry due to it’s beauty.
I absolutely love this! You are so awesome, Matt. Thanks for this.
Unreal. I can’t even describe how amazing these videos are. I wish you the MOST success!
Absolutely crazy camera making skills! Now I want to build one!
Cheers James! Imagine how your Mini would look through it... it would look very miniature indeed 😀
@@DIYPerks 😂
Absolute masterclass. As a photographer for a few years I would be suprised if you wouldnt get some calls from hollywood studios to deliver a few such lenses.
To be fair, Matt obviously isn't the first person who tried out something like this. I fear that a setup like this just isn't practical for commercial use. Especially when it comes to fast movement or low light scenes.
@@achannelhasnoname5182 Your realize they use different lenses for different scenes, right?
Something like this could absolutely be used for certain kinds of sequences.
@@achannelhasnoname5182 Do you grasp the fact that the man did this on a rediculously low budget and in a amazingly short time period?
This is my favorite video you've made so far. This was SO cool to watch and learn about.
Truly amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this great DIY video!
I am absolutely blown away Matt. This is incredible, I need to use this! ❤️
Looking for an episcope lens right now on ebay!
you think he made those bellows himself; they looked pretty pro for a western doing origami 😄
@@marcusdekker have you seen anything else he makes? He’s amazing
Thought of you as I was watching this video ... and here you are, Philip.
P.S. Yesterday was watching your Fran 8K review :)
@@philipbloom We need a documentary made with this lens.
@@philipbloom I havent seen much of him, but i am impressed to say the least. Like your channel too, a lot!!!
Holy damn I knew there was gonna be a lot of bokeh but this exceeded my wildest expectations. Also I almost cannot believe that despite having two fresnel lenses in there, there's zero visible chromatic aberration - do they cancel each other out that well?
Initially I thought you were going to use some ridiculous large format image sensor - like from an observatory telescope or disassembled x-ray sensor panel like the one featured in one of Applied Science's videos - although in both cases the image would've been black and white as sensors in these use-cases don't feature a bayer filter. But this intermediate method with a diffusion film is genius and works way better than I thought it would! I hope this will inspire some filmmakers to make their own and do some cool stuff with it.
Here's one idea how to take it to the next level - make it a tilt-shift lens as well - you already have the bellow which can allow some movement, just have to change the mechanism to add translation and rotation to the lens.
I wonder too, also the glass seems uncoated, maybe because of the whole picture being scaled down at the end point
Maybe it’s the relatively shallow angle through the fresnel lens?
I notice chromatic aberration, but maybe I am imagining things. I saw red aberration in the first shot at the edge of Matt's hair and green aberration on the face of the cow. It is also not a very sharp lens. Typical of the era it comes from, before computer designed lenses ironed out the swirly bokeh and softness, and coatings fixed the low contrast and aberrations.
Chromatic aberration is going to be relatively well controlled at the low resolution of 4k vs a full frame 20 megapixel image.
@@azureprophet my point is that fresnel lenses by default have huge amounts of chromatic aberration, I thought it was gonna be a total disaster but it's pretty much not visible at all!
Absolutely adore this! Truly brought a smile to my face and so ingenious and versatile.
i cannot believe what my eyes just saw
the precision, dude! THAT'S INSANE!!!
This is crazy good. Miniature scenes are making a comeback, especially with low-budget films, this could be revolutionary in getting those shots. Those results looked like props on a set. There would be no need of having two plates of characters and the background for such scenes saving a ton of time. This is very good.
Also, I perked up a bit when I saw you're video on my feed, always gets my adrenaline flowing.
What do you mean when you write that he is "video on my feed"? I'm really confused by that sentence...
@@jokepp In their suggested videos. Probably more specifically their subscription box where it shows all the channels you're subbed to.
You could say it was a .. DIY Perk.
The quality and uniqueness of the images is amazing. Honestly, the images have almost a tilt-shift type feel to them making the subject of the photo stand out in such a unique way. I love what you made!
Wow, another remarkable project! I just love your ideaverse!
Incredible! I can’t believe you’re providing detailed instructions for all
I dont think he is, it has been 6 months.. :(
I love how all your projects, this one especially, go from "a neat little idea" to "well.....we've over engineered the s**t out of it!" XD
lol it was like that, too. never done engineering.
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Great Lens.
Here is an idea to continue this project in a new direction: put in some edge detection by CV (or focus peaking to simulate), focus through the range and record all the edges, now you have a unique 3d scanner.
The debris floating in the sea shot was far and away my favorite from the set. Unreal
Fantastic video with a stunning effect. I absolutely love the look of this and would gladly use it in specialized cases at weddings.
I think if you extended the functionality you could link your focus motor to a lidar rig and get pretty fast and accurate Autofocus on frame-center subjects.
Your DIY projects have always been inspiring, but this one is just on another level!
Wet plate photographer here. This is very similar to how my 120 year old camera works, the plate size is 12 inches square. Using film, wet plate or modern large format film as the “sensor” would lead to a spectacular image using this lens. You could then scan it after development.
Instead of a screen you could pretty much just add a film holder at the back. Or mount the rear end to a large format camera.
Yeah, I was immediately reminded of the 1920s Century No.4A Folmer Graflex Studio Camera my father uses for wet plate and cyanotype photography. With a photosensitive layer you could even spare the fresnel lenses, since those are only needed for reprojection into the normal camera lens. This should also lead to an even clearer image, fresnel has noticeable distortion.
My thoughts exactly. The only innovation here (and that's not sarcasm, I've actually not seen anybody in the analog community do this before) is the frensel setup to project the image onto a full frame sensor. I think this may actually be quite a successfull accessory for large format cameras like Intrepid 4x5 (since it appears to be the most popular large format camera right now).
I tapped in to say that Matt had reinvented the view camera but you guys have covered it, basically.
Using Ilford direct positive paper would work well too- albeit with a very long exposure time.
It is really amazing the DOF, it reminds me a lot of the brenizer effect. i have a proposal, would you dare to make a second version? adding a diaphragm? and even a third version emulating a tilt and shift lens? Greetings from Argentina.
I was just thinking the same about tip-tilt. By adding a way to tip and tilt the lens, the camera could make use of the Scheimpflug principle whereby the focal plane is rotated rather than just moved back and forth. You could take some really interesting and different pictures such as a double portrait with one person near to the camera on the left of the frame and the other person in the distance at the right, then by tilting the focal plane to run diagonally between them, each person could be in focus while everything else in the image is blurred out.
Hey Matt, I couldn't find the measurements in the description , This is amazing, I would love to build one too!
This is what I call the quality content.
So many efforts and skills from your side. So much learning from our side. Fantastic job 👍🏼
That first complete image reveal shook me 😳 Amazingly unique look, I had to tell myself that the background was real and not a screen bc it reminded me of some early 2000s kids morning shows. I would love to see this used in some surrealist shorts
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WOW!!!!!!!! these kind of images.... it just gives me goosebumps, it feels like a lucid dream, This is amazing! and you for sharing this! thanks!
This is so unbelievably cool. Thank you for sharing!