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The other day I casually threw down a gauntlet.  This gauntlet has been picked up by Thingiverse’s amazing users like Marcus Wolschon, mcneight, and our own MakerBlock.

While nobody has created a fully parametric OpenSCAD script for lens caps on multiple systems, MakerBlock’s Parametric Lens Cap is a simple, press-fit cap that should work as a front cap for a variety of systems (though it could use slightly more detailed instructions…)

Perhaps even more exciting, mcneight and Marcus Wolschon have modeled the flanges for various systems, which is a necessary step for body and rear caps for many cameras.

This is awesome work, and a great example of the sort of collaboration that a community like Thingiverse can facilitate.  Thanks to all of you…and if you’re a 3d-modeling camera nut, please get involved!  (And if I missed your work, give a shout in the comments and tag your work “lens cap”)

Parametric Lens Cap by MakerBlock

Saw this post: blog.makerbot.com/2011/03/09/pinhole-lens-for-nikon-by-xjcrawler01-and-a-wee-challenge/ So I whipped this up.

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Canon FD Flange by mcneight

Accepting the challenge thrown down by Ethan at blog.makerbot.com/2011/03/09/pinhole-lens-for-nikon-by-xjcrawler01-and-a-wee-challenge/. Actually, this is something I've been working on for a little while. I just wasn't going to post it until it was really finished. Printing on the powder printer at metrixcreatespace.com resulted in an inner diameter that was a hair too small to fit around the Canon 50mm lens I have. The important measurement in this flange is the height. Placing this on a lens, your focal length will be 42mm from the bottom of the flange to the imaging surface (42.14mm if you measure to the back of a piece of 35mm camera film).

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Micro-4/3 Flange by MarcusWolschon

inspired by the FD flanges I measured the m4/3 -side of my m4/3 to FD adapter. status: NOT PRINTED YET, WORK IN PROGRESS. I'm not even sure this can be printed (1mm height details)

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