Another badass homemade lens! This one was made from a magnifying glass by Flickr member [j°Sh]. As you can see in this photo made with it, it’s got enough chromatic aberration and focal falloff to make things endlessly interesting. Here’s the lens itself: You can see more photos made with it here in his Flickr [...]

Flickr member Mr. Mikey Mike has made some gorgeous photos with a lens made from a loupe! Here’s the lens itself: You can see more photos made with this lens in his homemade lens photo set on Flickr.

Bosse Blomqvist pulled the lens off a Lex35 and put it on a 4×5 camera with a medium format 9x12cm back. Above is the somewhat surprising result: the coverage is far bigger than I’d have expected! Bosse writes: Had to check out how the magnificient Lex 35 would behave as a large format camera, or [...]

The Lex35/Vivitar T100 is a crappy, hackable, cheap, plastic camera. Above is Eben Ostby‘s result from flipping and spacing the lens. He writes: I don’t have pictures to show what I did, but if you look at my photostream, you’ll see a few "addled" photos that were done with a Lex 35 with a flipped [...]

Trask Bedortha has been playing with flipping and mixing lens elements to get distortion-free wider-angle coverage. Check out the examples and descriptions in this thread in the Through the Viewfinder group (where you shoot the ground glass of another camera) on Flickr.

MAKE Blog says: The latest Citizen Scientist has a short how-to on making a telephoto lens from a spotting scope – "You can make a telephone lens for your camera with a spotting scope and a center-slotted aluminum bracket… The camera is attached to the bracket with a bolt that fits the camera’s tripod mount. [...]

Matthew Wheeler took his first picture through an ice lens in response to a challenge by Scientific American and CBC calling on listeners to light a fire with a lens made entirely of ice. Too easy by far – Matthew took it one step farther and started photographing the natural beauty of his surroundings through [...]

Randy from Holgamods continues to kick ass: he’s now selling a Holga lens mounted on a body cap for use on Canon EOS cameras (Rebel XT, 20D, 30D, etc.). US $34.95, order here. I’ve ordered cameras from Holgamods before and recommend him strongly. If you want a Holga and don’t want to modify it yourself, [...]

I have to admit, I am tired of using Photoshop to create a pseudo Holga shot using javascripts found in flickr.com so I decided to just go ahead and hack my Holga CFN and give it a second life since all it has been doing is gathering dust. My plan—to hack the hell out of [...]

The people at Sushicam have successfully grafted the Minitar lens from a Lomo LC-A onto an Epson RD-1 digital rangefinder. Check out the step-by-step of building the lens mount as well as sample images here at Sushicam. See previous post on part 1. Also don’t miss Ta King, who has several galleries of photos taken [...]