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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] ILurkAndIKnowThings@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Would you mind telling us more about your exotic industrial camera and how you managed to salvage it? I love learning more about topics like this.

[–] davefischer@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

There's a whole class of cameras called "machine vision cameras" - a DSLR-quality sensor in a box with no user interface, intended to be embedded in a machine. Factory automation, scanning cinema film, hunter-killer robots, etc. The one I have has a 35mm sensor and an f-mount adaptor, so it's compatible with old manual Nikon lenses. (Nikon lenses were really popular in scientific and industrial applications all thought the 70s/80s/90s. Probably not so much now.)

My blog post about it:

https://www.cca.org/blog/20201111-Machine-Vision-Camera.shtml