YOU RUINED MY LIFE (for about a week) I SPENT SO LONG TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT ON MY OWN THAT I SEE LENSMAKING EQUATIONS IN MY SLEEP thanks for the files now my addiction is reawakened and now the rest of summer break is going to be indoors

The biggest proof of all that you're a mad scientist is that you only charged 5 dollars for this. I was legit expecting a price of 50 bucks at the VERY least.

I can't believe I will be able to play around with this. Your video was incredible, not only for what you achieved to do in blender, but also the editing. And now you optimized and made it more user friendly! Bravo

I still can't believe the "unnecessarily " complicated render video only has like 500k views. It really blew my mind and now I can freaking download the file!? Thank u so much!!!

still absolutely blown away by this...incredible job dude!!

As a developer: That opening is such a mood 😭

Awesome, so kind of you! You inspired me to make my own camera obscure last time and it was very fun playing with it. Got some nice renders too.

Before clicking the link in the description, I randomly guessed around 20-30 dollars for access to such a project just based on the amount of work and knowledge required to make this happen. I think you underestimate what this can be worth to people...

I'm not even a 3d designer but still so appreciate what you did. just amazing

Brings new meaning to the term digital sensor

Of course, more interesting than this base effort is if someone wrote this kind of compensation within the renderer, but this will do perfectly for now.

This is so awesome. You're starting a whole new generation of 3D Rendering. Thank you so much for making us a part of it. I know how hard you worked to make it happen.

This video needs more views, its so good!

I've been OBSESSING over this ever since your first video, I'm dizzy. AAAAA

Will someone please give this man a technical Emmy

Wow, nice bro! I see a lot of people posting your video on photography discord servers, theres definitely some people that would want to get their hands on this.

Looks great for liminal space photography

Thank you, camera, man 🫡

The results of the camera look so cool! Thanks for making it available to use!

I WOULD LOVE a video made for the people that are not used to 3D design but would love to play around with the camera, people like regular designers, photographers and the rest of us peasants :D

i just spent a month and some change making my own camera and now i realize you released your own :

This is why I pay internet! Thank you for sharing your experiment! It'll be much appreciated!

I have one final improvement suggestion - remove the renderer camera and just use the texture baking option since it reduces losses for another order (didn't try it actually but the hypothesis needs to be tested) and also helps to win an extra light bounce, so bounce count can be reduced 1 step down for extra speed.

i finally got around to using this and oh my god almost every "picture" i took just looked amazing, its hard to try and make a pic look bad

so my question is what if you try to simulate different types of cameras INSIDE blender, like recreating 80's cameras and stuff

This is really cool! Done some interesting experiments myself. Including making functional newtonian based telescopes that includes functional barlow and eyepieces. Very interesting what blender is capable of.

This still blows my fkn mind... and thats before we even get into the video editing lmao. damn bro, top stuff

Do we have to sign a release form saying that if this render melts our GPUs in to slag, we won't sue?

dudes rock

If someone makes an animation with this they're either rich or crazy.

You mad man!

thats truly insane.

madness

What a mad lad.

Excellent work!

So good. I love it.

I love using the camera but just wish that there was a version with a wider fov, its so narrow at the moment that you can only capture small scenes or you have to move really far away with the camera wich makes the scene look a bit flat

It's a terrific work, congrats! I have two questions: - how do you get the correct aperture? Do you approximate a Sunny16 calculation with the scene and check roughly how the blades on the camera are open/closed? - does the setup works also with Blender 3.5? (I started the render process but I had to stop it because I needed the PC, I'll try again later, but I would like to know if there's something that will mess up the result in that Blender version) Thanks!

Thanks for sharing!

Can you make a monochromatic version? ;-)

You're f amazing

Oh wow I was just wondering when and if a sequel woukdcome out for this and looked at your profile for it

question. obviously, different wavelengths of light refract differently even if you have the same two mediums. did you use something like the sellmeier equation, cauchy equation, or the drude-lorentz model to calculate the different "indexes of refraction" for the glass given specific wavelengths? or did you just eyeball it increase/decrease the indexes of refraction arbitrarily? i am going insane. thanks.

This leaves me wondering: is it possible to optimize rendering based on this? (i.e. bake camera mechanics directly into t he rendering engine)

Can you make an anamorphic lens for this?

I wonder if it's possible to speed it up even more. I bought the file and played a bit with it - I tested a different method - instead of looking at a glossy reflection I turned the image plane into a transmission material and placed the camera on the other side - looking at the back end of the plane. I also had to set the color value of the transmission shader to 25 because the resulting image was too dark. This method renders the same sample count 3 times faster but it is more noisy than your method. However the transmission plane isn't using any fancy normals (in fact it's barely affected by them, but you'd probably have more luck in modifying your setup than I do). Maybe it would be possible to combine these two methods to achieve much faster rendering. I also tried making the plane into a glass shader with high roughness and it worked similarly to the transmission shader except it was actually visibly affected by the normals - the issue of modifying the normal setup to work with this approach still remains tho.

Great job you crazy psychopathic nice guy

AWESOME

Yooooo sick

I need an animation with the real fake camera

I had been hoping you would do this. Actually, have you tried splitting the projection plane into its individual R, G and B layers to try and mimic physically accurate halation?

Guess this was all a giant comercial 😂 but nice work

I can't seem to properly get the subject in focus, any tips on that? When rotating the focus wheel, there is a black line with a cross in front of it. Is that the focus plane? Is the tip of the line the focus or the cross?

wow

Can you make a setup that use 2 camera that is combine in compositor to simulate human eye

Now make it work with motion blur

Ha ha ha.... You're crazy 🤣👍

And to think, some time back in the past, you probably opened up Blender, saw the default cube and thought, "what the hell do I do with this?.. it doesn't make any sense at all, I'm confused...".

Heyas! I've been playing around with the camera for a few days now trying to re-render some old renders to see how they look. I keep getting an issue though where the scale of the camera to the scale of the other models is completely out of whack due to how I made those old scenes. I tried just simply pulling the camera back but even adjusting the focus ring to as far as it can go causes things to still be really out of focus on some renders. I was wondering if there was a way to adjust the camera to focus further away and/or if there was a way to just simply scale the whole camera up without causing problems?

How should we send you the renders

I know it’s insane and would take a ludicrous amount of time to render but would it be possible to film animation with this?

hello good sir, would an rtx 3080 be able to run this camera? im impressed, surprised and scared

Where should I send the render?

Good hand job but can't there be a tutorial for the camera

OK, but, what if someone recorded an animation with it?

Now do a camera with a cmos chip

0:25 could you explain a bit further how that normal texture trick works?

wow! just wow! question. Is there some wiki of forum where we can chat about this? Like for instance how to improve render times or how to avoid fireflies?

I am pretty convinced that most of that work could be done in settings or by some addon. But good work, it's nice and fun to watch video 🙂

Could you make an 23h long video of how you precisly did it

if i have a massive firefly problem with my rendering will it screw up massively if i start clamping direct and indirect light?

no free download

gg

alright now use the virtual blender camera to record this video

Is there any way somebody else can purchase this on my behalf since I can’t do international payments? (My brother can because he is in canada)

i've been trying to download it for 20 minutes and i can't get the file

Hi, this is a shot in the dark, but have you eve considered anamorphic lenses? a whole extra level of complexity :)

What is the system requirements?

Great, now my computer hates me 😅

is it normal when it takes a whole 5 hours to render?

Yippe

hi, try to doing some collab with youtuber "pwnisher" he already has big community in 3D rendering and i would love to see more virtual photos

Are you okay

Does it work in eevee ?

My poorly optimized render already took 45 minutes on my decent pc😂 I have no shot of making it with this

Bruh... only 3.9k views.

May be worth it to add a De-noiser to the final photo.

**I CAN HEAR MY LAPTOP SCREAMING HARDER**

First it was "download camera" now "get the camera". Eeh..

now add video support haha joking do not torture yourself anymore

Nvidia employee came up with a plan to to drive up gpu prices by blowing up existing ones:

For FREE?????? You’ve got to have a patreon or something

5 CAD is so cheap LOL bump it up to $12 or something

Bro, make the price higher for the sanity you lost 😵 Make that camera atleast $100 , which will be close to a real film camera

I'm sorry, but I don't get the hype

I got an error on Blender 3.62 on MAC OS : Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/xxx/xxxx/xxxx/RenderPhoto.py", line 49, in KeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key "DummyLayer" not found'

Very nice. But what was he saying? Something fun I bet.