--- title: The Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special | daily.dev description: A maker known as Camera Things has designed a 3D printed sliding shutter mechanism for a homemade film camera that achieves variable exposure speed by allowing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-shutter-makes-this-3d-printed-camera-special-1qh2gq4ou twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special | daily.dev og:description: A maker known as Camera Things has designed a 3D printed sliding shutter mechanism for a homemade film camera that achieves variable exposure speed by allowing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-shutter-makes-this-3d-printed-camera-special-1qh2gq4ou og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/1Qh2gq4OU.png og:image:alt: The Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A maker known as Camera Things has designed a 3D printed sliding shutter mechanism for a homemade film camera that achieves variable exposure speed by allowing the blind strip to be partially retracted, controlling the width of the light-passing slit. Due to space constraints the design only works as a half frame shutter, so the creator is moving on to a more complex vertical leaf shutter design instead. The files have not been released publicly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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