Lens adapter for creating photographically reproduced designs with turnable mirror tube
OwnerCarolyn Bennettinventor
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Abstract
This invention is a combination lens and teleidoscope/kaleidoscope device for use in creating special photographic effects by enabling the user to take close-up photographs of Kaleidoscopically and Teleidoscopically produced designs. The device is adapted by means of a series of fittings, for attachment to a camera. A turnable mirror tube located within one embodiment of the device, allows a user to control the composition of his photograph without physically moving the camera itself or the design producing element.
Claims7
A photographic accessory, for creating special photographic effects by means of a unique kaleidoscope arrangement, comprising the following elements:
- a first transparent filter which attaches to a lens of a standard camera and which serves to protect said lens;
- a close-up lens which has means for attachment to the first transparent filter and which also attaches to a stepdown ring that adapts said close-up lens so that it is able to connect the lens to a first cylinder;
- a first elongated cylinder on which said step down ring is mounted;
- a second cylinder, that is smaller than the first cylinder, that is located inside the first cylinder and that is mounted by means of needle bearings within said first cylinder so that it is turnable within the first cylinder and which contains on its inside surface a plurality of oblong mirrors that are slanted toward each other so that they form an enclosure within the second cylinder;
- a second transparent filter which attaches to the end of the first cylinder located at the opposite end from the camera attachement end and which has a housing that connects the first cylinder containing the second cylinder to a cup or holder for housing interchangeable design producing means that are constructed to permit light from outside the accessory to shine through the design producing means and to project patterns from the design producing means so that the patterns are reflected by the slanted mirrors that are housed within the second cylinder and projected on the film inside an attached camera.
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