Retro Film Camera

Project info

• CategoryProduct Visualization
• LevelIntermediate
• ToolBlender 5.2.3 · Cycles
• TypeStill image
• Price (one price)US$73

In the scene: Analog SLR (body, prism, dials, lens), leather strap, film rolls, notebook, wood desk

Techniques used

• Body from bevelled boxes with a procedural leatherette (Voronoi distance-to-edge Bump) and a brushed chrome top plate
• Focus ring and dials are knurled with bmesh (alternating-radius polygon extruded), not a texture
• Lens barrel lathed (Screw modifier) with a dark inner wall; three flattened-sphere glass elements with Transmission + Thin Film for the coating sheen
• Leather strap: NURBS curve with a thin rectangular Bevel Object (flat ribbon), plus a stitching curve
• Window light stripes: a warm Sun lamp passing through blind slats (invisible to camera but casting shadows)
• Procedural wood desk, dark gradient backdrop, bokeh from emissive spheres
• Camera 70 mm f/2.8 with depth of field

How it was made

1. 1Set up the warm dark backdrop and the wood desk
2. 2Build the leather body, chrome top plate and prism
3. 3Add dials, shutter button, lever and rewind knob (knurled)
4. 4Assemble the lens: mount, lathed barrel, focus ring, glass elements
5. 5Add the leather strap, film rolls and notebook
6. 6Set the blind-shadow Sun, softboxes and a 70 mm DOF camera, then render

Scene statistics

• Polygons (triangles)74,294
• Objects124
• Materials41
• Lights3
• Render engineCycles
• Samples384
• Render time44 s

Modifiers in the scene

• Bevel
• Screw
• Subdivision Surface

Figures are read from the scene by Blender 5.2.3 LTS; the render time is for the final 1920x1080 image on one RTX 4060 GPU.

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