Camera Phone

EarthQuake

Hey guys, I've been wanting to try designing something from scratch for a while, so here is a something I've always wanted that nobody makes. A smart phone with a large sensor and an interchangeable lens mount. The little grip comes off, and I'm going to model a few lenses to go with it too.

I'm working directly with the highpoly here and probably won't bake it down to low, perhaps I'll do some basic uving and texture work directly on the high, which will probably be enough for the clean product render style I'm going for. Rendered in Toolbag 3 of course.

My initial sketch:


For the design I'm riffing on a few existing products, namely:
Samsung NX-Mini camera system
Panasonic CM1 phone
Leica cameras

jeffdr

Does this require a custom lens mount, or is there a small lens standard mount that it could use?

EarthQuake

jeffdr said:

Does this require a custom lens mount, or is there a small lens standard mount that it could use?

It would require a custom lens mount probably. Ideally with something like this you would want the lens mount to be as close as possible to the sensor, to make the device as slim as it could be. This would mean the lenses would end up being a bit larger as a result (as we were talking about in the call), but you could make a really slim pancake lens to be on for normal use.

The Samsung NX mini mount could theoretically be used, I'm not sure what the flange distance is (distance from sensor to point plane) but it's probably one of the shortest of any camera system.

Side benefit of cameras with short flanges, you can use adapters to attach pretty much any lens for any camera system on it.

MrHobo

Im not knowledgeable on camera stuff but aesthetically and conceptuallly this is pretty damn cool cool.
So do you feel the body is finished and all that is left is the lenses? Or are you going to mock up some branding  to style it out too?

EarthQuake

Some lens fellows.

EarthQuake

MrHobo said:

Im not knowledgeable on camera stuff but aesthetically and conceptuallly this is pretty damn cool cool.
So do you feel the body is finished and all that is left is the lenses? Or are you going to mock up some branding  to style it out too?

Body is close to done, I may add some more little details and stuff. I'm not sure about branding, I kind of like how clean it is. But I will add the usual text onto the lenses for sure.

EarthQuake

More lens friends and some material work.

samifira

Just curious, what're you modeling with? 

Brian "Panda" Choi

Joe, I wanna say I REALLY dig the design.

Cglewis

looking good man! Interesting design

EarthQuake

Thanks guys!

@samifira, I'm using modo, here are some wires:

gfelton

I love this idea, everything about it unique. Really looking forward to the finished piece.

Justo

Rendered in Toolbag 3 of course.

...aaaand suddenly I'm super interested in this thread. That aside, this looks super clean and slick Joe. 

xXCrimsonWolfXx

Honestly I feel like this should be a real thing for photography enthusiasts. There should be a base model and a model dedicated to just photography. You nailed that idea very well and I almost wish i could buy it. Superb work! 

ryebot

These are beautiful. Marvelous blend of the best of the old with the best of the new. I'd buy one of these if they were a thing. Thanks for sharing those wires too!

Amsterdam Hilton Hotel

make a tactical belt holster so i can carry it like old people carry cell phones

Tits

Such cool
most impressed
Wow!

pmiller001

WIcked! super coool. 

EarthQuake

Thanks guys!

The naming of things, materials finished up, and some work on a different lighting setup:

JacqueChoi

MrHobo

Got damn!
Edit: Thank you for branding it

malcolm

Nice sub-d Joe. What technique are you using for the coloured lens material?

anMori

Nice attention to detail!

EarthQuake

Thanks guys!

@malcolm, I colored the spec and am using Newton's rings as well. Download the material here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/499159/glass.tbmat