Psychedelic Mica Wave-Plate Camera Filter

My mom found a huge hunk of mica I collected when I was younger, its just a little larger than fifty millimeters in diameter!

I need to make a mica splitting knife by carving some wood but I went ahead and separated some layers to just see if it worked at all.

Its not in very good shape but good enough to play around with.

Pretty promising in my opinion. I can easily see a limited release of "Nostalgia" filters, likely the first batch of custom filter housings and then... a miner series? I would happily put out a bounty for samples over a certain size and grade!

As housings become available I'll explore more this direction.

For production; aluminum.

The housing will be printed for evaluation soon. Another version for mass production will be finished after verifying dimensions. Ideally this will be made out of brass.

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After some editing; an interesting three image animation from the Richmond trip:

From an older car show, I like this processing but the file size is massive!

Check out the Instagram page! https://www.instagram.com/wallfacerdesign/

Better yet, get a filter for yourself!

Thanks to three awesome people I've sold my initial production batch.

Right now I've ordered enough material to make five more but I'm considering ordering more because of the holiday season. I have a remaining model that has some V2 mica in it that I'm going to use as my test piece for a while (until someone buys it.) but I listed it on Tindie. https://www.tindie.com/products/17950/

The Instagram account has been driving most traffic it seems, I should update this project page more often with photos!

The only design change that I've made is buying some off the shelf gaskets instead of cutting out my own rigid spacers. I think these gaskets are easier on the lens and will work better in general, plus its nice to just be able to buy them. Three go into each assembly and twenty-five sell for about $15.

Panoramas are surprisingly hard.

Definitely worth it though!

Next step is to design my own filter housings and get a price quote, if I can make an assembly for less than say... $18 at one hundred units, then I'll probably try to go for it. Worst case scenario I can sell empty filter housing to the guy I've been buying from. I need to figure out thread pitches and true dimensions.