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    B How to Troubleshoot a Lens Focusing Issue with a DIY DSLR Lens

    Thanks a million Drakkith (sorry for misspelling last time) I did as you suggested and now the lens is significantly improved. It is sharp and usable.
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    B How to Troubleshoot a Lens Focusing Issue with a DIY DSLR Lens

    BuV I mentioned that this is a covex-concave lens which does not look like the lens in the link. It's been a while since my high school days but I think the two lenses are different. Thanks anyways. Darkkit lens in its original housing with the original diaphragm (f10) is mounted in a camera...
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    B How to Troubleshoot a Lens Focusing Issue with a DIY DSLR Lens

    I look through the lens and it is very sharp almost like a macro lens at 4-5 cm (and not reversed). I took photos with it at that distance also very sharp. I tried taking photos at objects at varying distances not everything is out of focus. These disposable cameras are supposed to be in...
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    B How to Troubleshoot a Lens Focusing Issue with a DIY DSLR Lens

    Hello Thanks for your reply and welcome, nice forum this is. I am sure I can learn a lot here. This is what's puzzling me also. The only things that I can see clearly are very close to the lens (less than 5 cm) and they are NOT upside down which is another strange thing. I took physics in...
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    B How to Troubleshoot a Lens Focusing Issue with a DIY DSLR Lens

    Hello all As an experiment I tried to make a lens for my dslr with plastic lens of a Kodak Funsaver disposable camera. The lens in this camera is convex-concave and is a 30 mm lens. Problem is: My lens can only show items in focus if they are at about 1-2 cm away from it. Nothing past 2 cm...
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