YouTuber invented a lens that can do anything

Thomas Spicher, a YouTuber who adapts everything to his Sony mirrorless camera for fun, seems to have invented a lens that can do anything.

He created a modular lens system, which can be dismantled by the user to customise it for each job. The idea came to Thomas after running into an unusable 80s point-and-shoot camera from a thrift store, which he – of course – ended up taking apart and adapting to his camera.

After various attempts, he came up with a simplified design with a cylindrical lens block that accepts almost any lens from any point-and-shoot or compact camera. A series of aperture discs can be threaded onto the back of every lens block, which fits inside a focus ring that you unscrew to obtain focus. The last building block is a base, or let’s call it a converter, that connects this system to a camera lens mount, in this case, a Sony E lens mount.

If you have been itching to take apart a broken point-and-shoot camera, this is your sign to do it and create some interesting images with the repurposed lens. It is also a great way to learn how lenses and cameras work.

Watch the full video where he explains how this do-it-all lens came to be, and make sure to check out his other camera experiments too.