Awesome guys!! Great progress, I love the adaptions, cant wait to see the real deal soon. Thank you to those who’ve invested so much time and resources into this.
Was a long time lurker, this project hooked me and I just had to join. While it’s no substitute for the actual work being done by a few, having read all the posts in this thread, I feel invested in the outcome, and am proud to be in early on such a cool project. In a weird way I almost feel like I know some of you personally
Here are this week’s additions and the files referenced in post#1 have been updated as well.
Given the news DBSAR posted above if you haven’t already done so now is a good to verify that your BLF user name is correct in either of the files. Since the pm’s will be sent based on the names in the files it’s important that it be correct.
In the team chat Barry has three choices of diffuser, most opaque to least from left to right. Speculation only here for a moment, but I suspect Barry will mail them to DBSAR to test to see which is acceptable.
Having a choice of several diffusers of different translucency would be terrific — this way you can change the diffuser based on the needs. Or have one design with a sliding surface that acts like a polarizer!
How have I not seen this!? I’m totally in for one. I have been wanting a lantern for so long. None have quite hit the mark for me, but this looks great.
The final design looks stunning! They not only managed to make the top part more functional, but also to make it slimmer and more elegant. But another thing I have noticed on the render image, is that the surface around the upper tripod mounting hole is normal knurling. Shouldn’t that area be flattend to have more contact area to the tripod plate?
Hope it’s OK to post this… just brainstorming an idea. A kind of “dynamic” diffuser. It has 2 elements: a fixed inner shell and a rotating outer shell. They each have a polarized half where one is rotated 180 degrees. Here’s the visualization:
This is just a “quick sketch.” But hope this can provide a seed bed for an evolved design that might be feasible.