Digital Lomo: hacking the Minitar lens onto an RD-1

Posted 7 March, 2006 in Camera Hacking & DIY

The folks at Sushicam are working on putting the Lomo LC-A’s Minitar lens onto an Epson RD-1 digital rangefinder. As they point out, with the RD-1’s 1.5x crop factor, they’ll probably lose out on much of the vignetting, but there’s one way to find out!

I’ve long thought about adapting it for use on video cameras, perhaps using something like Media Chance’s DoF Machine, and am quite curious to see what they get out of it.

Check out Part 1 and stay on the lookout for Part 2!

Via MAKE Blog