Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder, and so can you

This is a great product, and without meaning to underestimate the value of a ‘makers’ project I really wish it could be manufactured at scale with a metal body and a mount that could take a wider range of lenses.

Anyone currently interested in this breadth of formats would need to spend maybe 20 thousand dollars to buy cameras like the Hasselblad Xpan, the Plaubel Makina 67, and one of the Fujica 690 bodies.

Putting all this into one body is almost miraculous.

Lomo have recently released a nicely featured 35mm film camera[1]. I wish something like the MRF2 could also be produced in this way.

[1] https://shop.lomography.com/us/lomo-mc-a-35-mm-film-camera-b...

Making China imports expensive and cumbersome makes these builds difficult in my opinion. It is most certainly not really $300 if you have good connections, second the admin and tolls can make you spend enormous amount of time and money.

    Electronics (MCU, sensors, displays, cables, LiPo, switches): ~$125 / ~£100
    PCB share (DIY assembly; amortized per build): ~$10 / ~£6 [full 5× PCB batch ~ $35 / £28]
    Hardware/fasteners/mech bits: ~$25 / ~£20
    Optics (lenses + beam splitter): ~$115 / ~£90
    Printed parts material: ~$25 / ~£20
    Rough per-build total: ~$300 / ~£235 (add shipping/taxes and any PCB batch overhead you keep)

Very very cool. I've been thinking about doing something like that before, but didn't really have the time or skills. Awesome someone went through with it.

"When we must, we can."