Super easy way of lens making

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

easiest lens making method :
I found 3829193 at google patents. As you see , its a early 70s patent.

It is the most easy way of lens making description.

You buy some acrylate gel , load it with potassium bichromate , some gels carry good amount of other liquids as we see at dye transfer method.

Than you put it on a crt or lcd or plasma monitor.

You expose the gel with light intensity changing image.
The more the gel exposed to the light , it will be thicker
The less the gel exposed to the light , it will be thinner

With changing the chemicals and contact printed images , you can make zernike phase plates , aspherical shapes etc.
YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL WITH POTASSIUM BICHROMATE , IT MAKES BIRTH DEFECTS AT CHILDREN.
There is many other chemicals , photo curable acrylics at the market and google science research.

Best ,

Mustafa Umut Sarac

 

[walter23]

You should take an idea like this and implement it. Would be cool to see some nice results

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I think , even loading the gel with nanopowders and heat it , can increase the index. I really very liked the technology and after discussion , i m thinking to make it.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

Go for it. You keep coming up with obscure and interesting techniques for doing photographic related things. Have you ever actually done any of the techniques you have talked about? I think you should really focus on actually DOING one of the things you talk about..and let us know your results. We eagerly await your experiments.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I found even easier method from mit . They use this technology for to generate optalhmic lenses at the rural side of poor countries.
I think they use below technique. I am not very sure they use the below technique but it makes sense.
You build a elastic pocket from elastic deformable plastic like a children balloon.
Than you build empty sections outside of the pocket with bottom and top portions, not deformable.
You inject baby oil to these sections and by this way , rigid sections pressurize the elastic pocket from outside.
the more oil inside the sections , the less volume in the pocket.
you put pressurized acrylic in to the pocket and make the lens.

 

[PHOTOTONE]

It is all well and good you finding all these methods to achieve results...but unless you implement these techniques you will not have results. I think you should go ahead and do it. Don't just talk about it. No one is going to do it for you.

Tell you what, you MAKE me a 300mm, mounted in a copal shutter for 1/3 the cost of a Symmar or Sironar and I will buy it from you. See you might have your first customer.

 

[walter23]

I agree with phototone. You throw out a lot of interesting and whacky ideas, but you'll probably find the "devil is in the details". Work out a method and make a lens - would love to see some of your bizarre ideas come to fruition.