Bolex H16 Vintage Camera

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#1

This is the result of my latest project, a Bolex H16 vintage film camera:

Bolex_H16_Rex5_001.jpg1713×1142 575 KB

It is a reconstruction of the Model H16-Rex5 from 1966. Thanks to the principled BSDF and Filmic Colormanagement it was a real joy to render this model. If you like to see more renders of this, just let me know.

Thanks for watching!

#2

And here is another one:

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#3

And a third one, unmounted lenses and lightmeter.

Bolex_H16_Rex5_004.jpg1713×1142 625 KB

All images are (almost) viewport render. The only compositing action aplied is color balance and dispersion.

#4

And a close up of the lightmeter

Bolex_H16_Rex5_003.jpg1142×1713 1.27 MB

#5

Great, and i love the design of these old cameras!

#6

Good model)

#7

Very well done. I remember those cams qjuite well :slight_smile: (This was never used LoL

#8

Good job! :yes:

#9

Congratulations.

#10

Lovely bit of work. There’s something bizarrely amusing about using digital software to create pictures of an old (pre-digital) camera.

#11

Gorgeous, did you model from photos or do you have access to the real thing?

#12

Hi,
all modelling is done from Reference images. I spend very lot of time in collecting reference images and sorting them, because there are several sub-types of this camera that slightly differ in detail.
I used approx. 40 reference images in sum.

#13

Here is the nextcshot, the rear view:

Bolex_H16_Rex5_005.jpg1713×1142 878 KB

#14

and finally, a wireframe render without subdivision:

Bolex_H16_Rex5_006.jpg1713×1142 409 KB

As soon as i’ve cleand up the model - organising in Groups and proper naming of the objects - i will put this thing on blendermarket.

Thanks for the good comments!

#15

Great effort Karl, I really like the lighting and the amazing details on the camera. How many hours (approx.) did you invest into this project?

PS
My 1st ever post on BA forum - couldn’t have picked a better thread to start. :slight_smile:

#16

wonderful, model, render and subject, congratulation!!!

#17

nice, can you show the light setting?

#18

Here is a screenshot of the scene. I changed the panels so that everything fits onto one screen. I’ve mainly used meshlight from planes, because i then can map some grids for nicer reflections into the light. I also used filmic. In the upper left, the compositing nodes are shown:

Screenshot_Scene.jpg2300×1216 288 KB

#19

Hi,
the whole project from first reference images collecting to final texturing it took me about 40 hours. The modelling part was about 25 hours. Usually i can go a bit faster, but i decided to switch to Blenders new PBR shader, and therefore i needed to setup all shaders from scratch.

#20

Here is another shot, from above:

BM_Bolex_H16_Vintage_Camera_Image_004.jpg1200×600 348 KB

Today i’ve prepared everything and uploaded it to Blendermarket. As soon as it is online, i’ll post a link here.

Thank you all very very much for those good comments!