Apart from actual cameras, many photographers additionally like camera-shaped kick-knacks. And in case you’re maintaining your interior youngster alive and effectively, I’m positive you additionally love LEGO. In that case, you’re going to like this Leica IIIf set that accommodates not solely the digicam, but additionally a, field, a lens, a finder, and lens and physique caps. What’s extra, you may assist it to get to the cabinets! The LEGO and Leica fan behind this equipment is Pandis Pandus. If it rings a bell, in addition they designed this LEGO Ur-Leica based mostly on the “authentic Leica” from 1914. This time, the inspiration was the Leica IIIf, an iconic rangefinder digicam launched in 1950. Curiously sufficient, Pandis Pandus owns one, in order that they determined to recreate the complete equipment with digital LEGO items: the digicam physique, a 50 mm f/2 lens, a 35 mm finder, and the caps. So far as the items go, the equipment would have a complete of 586 parts: 125 distinctive parts, 6 adorned parts, and a pair of weight bricks constructed into the digicam. “The equipment are simply attachable and removable,” the designer writes. “The dials can rotate 360 levels and the shutter-release button is tactile.” For now, the LEGO Leica IIIf is simply an idea. Nonetheless, you may assist the mission on Pandis Pandus’s LEGO Concepts web page, and hope that it’ll hit Leica or LEGO shops in close to future. [via PetaPixel]
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