Here's one to ponder

13 years 3 months ago #20705 by Baydream

Oscar Cohen wrote:

Scotty wrote: How about a circular sensor and a square lens?


One way to look at it! Square lens... just try to visualize that one :blink:

Ow. Makes my head hurt. It would be fun if someone made a "housing" to fit around a lens just to see other people's reactions.:toocrazy:

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12 years 10 months ago #99823 by P51
Square lens? :rofl: that's just to odd for my taste


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12 years 10 months ago #99825 by The Time Capturer
That's fun to imagine but I think a circular sensor would be interesting. Every image would appear taken by a fish eye lens.

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12 years 10 months ago #99835 by Baydream
A square casing for a lens (with the glass being rounds and all controls accessible) would be great when you need to steady it against a wall . :toocrazy:

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12 years 10 months ago #99839 by Garbo
But then if you want to adjust the focus, image a square rolling up the wall. Clump, clump, clump

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12 years 10 months ago #99857 by The Time Capturer
LOL ... stepped focus

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12 years 10 months ago #100027 by Stealthy Ninja
Dodecahedron FTW

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12 years 10 months ago #100049 by The Time Capturer
That would certainly create an interesting image...

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12 years 10 months ago #100053 by Rob pix4u2
doesn't Cokin make a multi image filter like that ?

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12 years 10 months ago #100219 by Rawley Photos

Stealthy Ninja wrote: Dodecahedron FTW


Looks like the crystal used in the flux capacitor! :rofl:


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12 years 10 months ago #100223 by Baydream

Garbo wrote: But then if you want to adjust the focus, image a square rolling up the wall. Clump, clump, clump

The focus would be internal so the casing would not "roll". :whistle:

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12 years 10 months ago #100225 by Baydream

Rob pix4u2 wrote: doesn't Cokin make a multi image filter like that ?

They do, sorta.
www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=cokin+...ical_Effects_Filters

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12 years 10 months ago #100261 by Graflex 4x5
At least, when set down, it wouldn't roll off the bench and out into the street, under the front wheel of a bus loaded with school children, on their way to the county rest home to cheer up the terminally ill elders causing a 47 car pile up with no survivors and causing a large toxic chemical spill .... Or you can use it as a door stop .... Must be something a square lens would be good 4.

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12 years 10 months ago #100607 by John Landolfi
There is always some diffraction from the light that reflects from the internal surfaces of a lens barrel. These are fairly well reduced in a cylindrical barrel, and the image cone, when it reaches the sensor, causes most of the diffraction interference to land outside the sensor ( a square well inside a circle),The corners of a square cross section would cause a more chaotic difraction pattern, and the image area at the sensor plane would need to be much (too much) bigger to avoid the distortion at the corners. So, why would one want to do that?


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12 years 10 months ago - 12 years 10 months ago #101045 by icepics
Isn't it more where the image is recorded that determines that it's square/rectangular? In an SLR the image bounces off a square mirror and is projected into a rectangular section of film.

I have this, a Tiffen multi-image filter - shot thru it while holding it in front of my digital camera.

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