2025/10/04

[retro: 2024-08-31] Otaku Expo Tanabata Festival 2024 (day 1)

This event marked the con debut of my DIY flash projector, a personal project that I had been working on intermittently for almost a decade.

It took a while to brainstorm, patch together, and refine, but the clunky contraption had several advantages over the commercially-available solutions (specif. the Light Blaster from 2015), namely

  • The gobo / film slide is not confined to the traditional dimensions of of film (24mm x 36mm rectangle), so I could take full advantage of the entire image circle of the attached lens.
  • Using a metal lens adapter as the mounting point allows me to securely mount much heavier zoom lenses for the projector.


equipment notes:

2 lights, DIY flash projector, 2 light stands, Rogue Flashbender XL, Canon EOS M50

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