Thingyfy has introduced the Pinhole Professional Max, what it claims is probably the most superior pinhole lens on the planet because of its variable 18-36mm focal size and 6 apertures.
For the reason that launch of its first Pinhole Professional lens in 2016, Thingyfy says that it has “conquered” the pinhole lens area of interest with each the it and Pinhole Professional X, which cumulatively raised $792,219 over two Kickstarter campaigns. The corporate says it has delivered greater than 10,000 merchandise during the last six years and calls itself some of the trusted digital camera tools producers within the crowdfunding house.
Constructing on this historical past, Thingyfy has introduced the Pinhole Professional Max which it says is the primary profitable try at combining six apertures and a variable focal size into one pinhole lens design.
The Pinhole Professional Max
The Pinhole Professional Max has three main options: six apertures, a variable focal size, and assist for a number of lens mounts.
The Pinhole Professional Max has six aperture sizes that give photographers extra artistic management over the way it captures photographs. IT provides six totally different pinhold sizes: 0.1mm, 0.15mm, 0.2mm, 0.25mm,0.3mm, 0.35mm, 0.5mm, and 0.8mm. The corporate says these pinholes are exact all the way down to micrometer accuracy.
Thingyfy says that its pinhole lenses are totally different from most available on the market in the way it creates the opening.
“Not like most DIY and industrial pinhole cameras and pinhole lenses that use both mechanical pin punching, chemical etching, or laser etching, Pinhole Professional makes use of a robotic-controlled tiny micro-drill that’s solely 0.05mm in diameter, to preciously drill a wonderfully spherical and clean pinhole aperture,” the corporate says.
“This course of requires state-of-the-art environmental management and vibration discount, in an effort to produce the beautiful high quality of every Pinhole Professional in mass manufacturing.”
The variable focal size obtainable on the Pinhole Professional Max makes it the primary multi-aperture digital camera lens that has the power to differ its focal size — on this case between 18 and 36mm.
Lastly, Thingyfy says the Pinhole Professional Max has a common lens mount that enables it to work with any digital camera, although the corporate particularly notes Canon EF, Nikon F, Sony A, Sony E, Fujifilm X, Micro 4 Thirds, and Pentax Ok on its specification sheet, although the corporate’s Kickstarter reveals compatibility with a a lot wider vary of cameras together with Canon RF and Nikon Z.
Beneath are just a few pattern photographs taken with the Pinhole Professional Max.
Pricing and Availability
The Pinhole Professional Max is offered to again on Kickstarter beginning at $219. Thingyfy says that the lenses will enter mass manufacturing in July and may ship out to backers by September. On the time of publication, the marketing campaign had already tremendously surpassed its funding aim.
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