spinning 35mm question (pleasseee help)

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zipper1022

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hey im building the cd player/ spinning 35mm adapter and i was wondering if it mattered how far away from the gg i put the macro...

most people have used 2 inch thick enclosures but radio shack only had a 3 inch one so i got that....

do i want the macro to be close to the gg or far?

i can always cut teh project box so shorten the distance...


ALSO, DOES ANYONE HAVE AN EXTRA FROSTED DUMMY CD????

i sanded a plain one lightly with fine sand paper and it came out okay... anyone have an extra premade one???
 
hi zipper,

normal distance from gg to camcorder is between 30 - 50mm its not that important. Depends on your camcorder model. If you have a camcorder with lens thread smaller then 43mm you wont need a macro at all.

Fix a 35mm dia slide to the wall. Distance from camcorder to dia slide 30-50mm and try to zoom in just enough to fit the whole viewfinder/LCD with the dia slide. If you can focus on the dia slide without problems take the measured distance and use it in your dof adapter.

best regards
Daniel

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cool thats really helpful...

another thing i noticed as i put it together...

when i was checking the diy it said to assemble the 35mm lense and the gg and then point it at a far away object, IE tree building etc...
i did that and the image that it projected onto my gg is weird...

i see the whole image, but there is a circle of it, (the same size as the back glass of the lense) that is seen in my image...

will that circle go away when i put it in the project box and close it up?
 
I hope I understand what you are asking, the lens is projecting the image in a circle shape, instead of the rectangle you were expecting? You'll just zoom into it and only record a rectangular portion of that circle.
 
Daniel Schaumberger said:
If you have a camcorder with lens thread smaller then 43mm you wont need a macro at all.
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If you have a canon Hv20 and trying to make a Spinning adapter, do i need the macro on that? I mean, i think it's a 43mm lens
 
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