Lux Camera

My goal is to design and produce a fully-fledged camera, using easily purchased off-the-shelf components, without having to rely on anything pulled from a potentially valuable piece of equipment. A secondary goal is also to make this camera completely open source through rapid-prototyping techniques such as laser cutting and 3D printing, and the Arduino physical computing platform.

Type 6x6 Box Camera
Media 120 Roll Film
Objective 65mm f/5.6 Single Element, Coated
Viewfinder Waist-level Brilliant finder
Shutter Electromechanical single-leaf, 1/125-1s + B&T
Aperture Rotating diaphragm, f/5.6-32
Dimensions 7.9 x 9.4 x 11.7 cm
Construction SLS Polyamide (body), Stainless Steel (shutter, aperture)


Parts List

Electrical

Part Qty Source Notes
Adafruit Trinket 5V 1 Adafruit
Adafruit Quarter-size Protoboard 1 Adafruit
Transistors, TIP120 2 Adafruit Perhaps a bit overkill
Diode, 1N4001 1 Adafruit
Solenoid, 5V 1 SparkFun
Rotary Switch, 10 position BCD DIP 1 Jame