The camera in a typical mobile phone is now at a standard at which it can be considered a serious device rather than a toy, such has been the effort put in by the phone manufacturers. They are still held back in some ways by their lenses despite the same development effort being pointed in that direction, and there have been projects aiming to replace those lenses with better quality ones. A while back we covered [Evan Monsma]’s replacement of his broken iPhone camera lens with a C-mount item, and now he’s back with a much improved version.
The original was glued on with cyanoacrylate adhesive, and this had parted. It was time to upgrade the phone, so he had a new lens mount covering two of the cameras machined from solid brass and leaving an open view for the third and unmodified camera. This was fixed to the phone with epoxy, and with a set of 3D printed lens covers to protect them he’s ready to go. There’s even a tripod thread machined into the bottom of this thing. He shows us it in action with both C-mount and EF-mount lenses, the latter resulting in a very long effective focal length.
We like this project, but perhaps we’d give it an IR filter to remove the unwanted pink glow. If you’re interested, here’s the original version.
Thanks [Luis Mercado] for the tip!
The link to the original version brings up a video titled “The Dutch Hate Their Trains. They Shouldn’t.”
I’m guessing that is not the video you intended..
Maybe it should be this link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br76WlXVOW4
And by this perhaps silly mistake the video titled “The Dutch Hate Their Trains. They Shouldn’t.” is now presented to a whole new public it would otherwise might never have reached.
The excuse in the video: “nine out of ten passengers arrive within five minutes of schedule”
9 out of 10 is a risky number. In public relations and customer service, it’s a very bad number indeed.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725190044.htm
This is part of the reason why e.g. laptop manufacturers like to switch models yearly even if it costs them more money to retool and re-design at such a rapid pace. When any one model sells in limited absolute numbers, even if a quarter of the laptops fail (just out of warranty), the public perception about the quality of the brand remains because the prospective buyers or owners of a particular model are unlikely to hear that any particular model is shoddy.
I found this article because I saw hackaday in my youtube studio external sources and wondered what happened. Thanks for the accidental shout-out, it got me 14 extra views haha. I hope you enjoyed despite not being what you expected.
Fixed the link, but I’m leaving this comment thread due to emergent discussion of trains.
I really love his idea of three overlapping threads, or indeed that you don’t need a full circle (just at least three points in more than a semicircle) to have a proper grip on a thread.