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I use mine (Prusa i3 reprap design) mostly for camera stuff. I've made a few lens adapters from old manual focus bayonet mounts to my Sony A7, printed the phys

I use mine (Prusa i3 reprap design) mostly for camera stuff. I've made a few lens adapters from old manual focus bayonet mounts to my Sony A7, printed the physical housing to get a full-sized speedlite flash mounted to the Fuji Instax 210 instant camera, etc. Pretty ideal for cameras where you are often wanting to mate this thing to that thing with some sort of adapter that may or may not exist otherwise or might cost a ridiculous amount of money for what it is due to relatively low demand for the part.

seanp2k2 12y ago
That's awesome! Are those parts open-source anywhere? Also, curious as to how sturdy those are and what exactly they're made from. In my (quite limited) experience handling printed parts, they didn't really seem like the type of thing I'd trust to hold something expensive + fragile like a camera lens.
- georgemcbay 12y ago
  I've put a couple of things on Thingiverse, including a lens mount design: https://support.thingiverse.com/thing:330812 https://support.thingiverse.com/thing:330812 Someday I need to clean up a bunch of other things and figure out what the cool kids are using to share designs instead of thingiverse now that Makerbot is kind of shunned by large portions of the open 3d printer community. I print parts for my cameras in ABS which is pretty strong and has a nice side benefit in that if it ever does fail, it fails in a slow stretchy sort of way as opposed to just exploding like PLA plastic does. I'm not sure what type of plastic the pieces you've held are but there's a really wide range of available materials ranging from really brittle to really strong (also with various degrees of heat tolerance in the end part). I've used the lens adapters quite extensively and haven't had anything fail yet and some of the lenses I use with them are large old lens designs from the late 70s which tend to be quite heavy.

seanp2k2 12y ago

That's awesome! Are those parts open-source anywhere? Also, curious as to how sturdy those are and what exactly they're made from. In my (quite limited) experience handling printed parts, they didn't really seem like the type of thing I'd trust to hold something expensive + fragile like a camera lens.

georgemcbay 12y ago
I've put a couple of things on Thingiverse, including a lens mount design: https://support.thingiverse.com/thing:330812 https://support.thingiverse.com/thing:330812 Someday I need to clean up a bunch of other things and figure out what the cool kids are using to share designs instead of thingiverse now that Makerbot is kind of shunned by large portions of the open 3d printer community. I print parts for my cameras in ABS which is pretty strong and has a nice side benefit in that if it ever does fail, it fails in a slow stretchy sort of way as opposed to just exploding like PLA plastic does. I'm not sure what type of plastic the pieces you've held are but there's a really wide range of available materials ranging from really brittle to really strong (also with various degrees of heat tolerance in the end part). I've used the lens adapters quite extensively and haven't had anything fail yet and some of the lenses I use with them are large old lens designs from the late 70s which tend to be quite heavy.