Ice Lens

I came across this in Geist magazine, I thought some people here might appreciate it. Artist Matthew

Wheeler responded to a challenge set out to light a fire with a lens made of ice - but he went on to take

photos with ice lenses. Link: http://www.whistlestopgallery.org/Matthew_Wheeler.htm

 

If anyone knows more about this, it would be neat to find out what kind of lens design he used, aperture,

how he mounted them on a camera etc..

Coooool!

Way cool.

<p>Nice pictures, certainly. The non-orthodox material of the lens reminds me of one made of a brown beer bottle (in Finnish, but the pictures are self-explanatory):

 

<a href="http://www.teknofokus.fi/Foto/Optplo/ppohjalns1.htm">pg 1</a>,

<a href="http://www.teknofokus.fi/Foto/Optplo/ppohjalns2.htm">pg 2</a>,

<a href="http://www.teknofokus.fi/Foto/Optplo/ppohjalns3.htm">pg 3</a>,

<a href="http://www.teknofokus.fi/Foto/Optplo/ppohjalns4.htm">pg 4</a>.

Waaaaay too cooooool !

That bokeh sucks.

Just proves that a good photographer/artist can produce good work with *any* equipment at hand. Hmmm... I wonder if one could find liquids of different refractive indices and build a frozen Tessar?

It doesn't prove that. It proves that one photographer was able to make nice images with lenses made out of ice.

Um, Hannu, that's not a plain ordinary unmodified end of a beer bottle. That's a lens, apparently biconvex, made from the end of a beer bottle. There's a considerable difference between the two.

I think the brown beer bottle lens is great not because "it works", but because of the

colouration.