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Here’s a pretty nice three-part video of how Canon makes its camera lenses. To me, this is required viewing no matter what brand camera you shoot or even if you’re just interested in the science of glass making. It shows Canon’s process of mixing and heating the raw materials to make glass, then the machining of the glass and assembling the lenses. I can understand why big glass is so expensive.

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Here’s a site, http://digitalrokkor.altervista.org/ that explains how to use those Minolta lenses that we horde on newer Canon digital bodies.

Unfortunately the site seems to be a little dated as far as the bodies they cover, but it does show the conversion necessary. This is really interesting stuff.

While I’m at it, there is also a flickr group devoted to this, http://www.flickr.com/groups/md-eos/

EOS bodies
Minolta Rokkor Lenses

Here’s a nice short video by wired about 3D photography. I like the slide viewer and the dual Canon EOS Elan stereo camera setup. Not too in depth but good.

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