nathan

I started this project, in part, to better understand the factors involved in modern digital video camera design and manufacture; knowing in advance that this motivation would likely lead to some significant pivots along the way. For the past week, I’ve been a bit hung up on a couple of […]

Having gone over the questions of why modify a digital camera in this way, and which camera I’ll modify to start, it seems relevant to give background on upcoming decisions and related motivations. For several years, the questions of why and how things are made, including where they are produced, […]

Having now decided that the best sort of camera for this project would be an action camera (for reasons of sensor size, flexibility and pricing), and that I was going to use D-Mount lenses, I needed to decide which camera to use. In terms of camera options, I started with […]

Elsewhere on this site, you’ll see that a lot of what I’ve been doing for the past few years has been working with immersive experiences, especially dealing with light and optics in projection, sometimes in coordination with the Unreal Engine. Over the past few months, though, much has happened in […]