{"id":627,"date":"2006-05-07T04:01:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T04:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2006-05-07T04:01:28","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T04:01:28","slug":"cutting-glass-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Cutting (Glass) Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To fix the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=620\">short-sightedness<\/a> of my infrared-cut-filter-removed Fujifilm Digital Q1, I needed to place a similiarly sized glass in front of the CMOS sensor, where the infrared cut filter once was.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/cge1.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe closest I could get was this; while it was a tad over 1mm, I could salvage this to make a 9x9x1 mm sized glass piece. Yes, I bought it just for this purpose at <b>SnJ<\/b>, Avenue K. The other piece of glass could be used for stop-motion photography from under the glass. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/cge2.jpg\"><br \/>\nI also bought safety goggles and gloves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/cge3.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;and a tungsten carbide-tipped glass cutter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/cge4.jpg\"><br \/>\nI marked the line to be cut with cellophane tape, using the original infrared cut filter to measure. I then scored across the line repeatedly with the glass cutter, so I could easily snap it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/cge5.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8230;whoops. I guess I didn&#8217;t score it enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/cge6.jpg\"><br \/>\nNever fear! I then used one of the shards, cut it twice, and managed to get close to the size.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/cge7.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd here it is, before reassembly.<\/p>\n<p>The result? Landscape still is out of focus, and its macro is not focused either. \ud83d\ude41 I&#8217;ll just wait for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesilentroom.net\" target=\"_BLANK\">Fazri<\/a> to find that glass shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To fix the short-sightedness of my infrared-cut-filter-removed Fujifilm Digital Q1, I needed to place a similiarly sized glass in front of the CMOS sensor, where the infrared cut filter once was. The closest I could get was this; while it was a tad over 1mm, I could salvage this to make a 9x9x1 mm sized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}