A Sony photographer with a bent for silver halide film photography built a camera that takes Sony E-mount lenses. Under the name LEX Optical, he has produced a prototype for the LEX camera that can be hand built by anyone with sufficient skills.
The camera features a thin Copal-branded shutter, supporting electronics boards that can soldered by hand - no surface mount parts, a cast mounting plate and nylon body. The body has been dyed and coated to prevent light leaks. The camera takes any 35mm film. While the camera does not understand DX coding, the exposure can be set from ISO 6 to 512,000.
The LEX camera is intended to be released as an open source design that can be modified by others, though it may be offered fully built as a crowd-funded project first.
