DIY Fluid Goggles

[m2b]

Okay so I started playing around with this idea last night. I tried to think of anything that I had that had a lens. I finally came up with my old telescope, that doesn't work much worth a crap, I think the lenses got knocked around/off kelter too much.

I pulled a couple of them out and played around with them. It seemed to be going quite well until I finally got in the water this afternoon and then everything went fuzzy.

i decided to try one last thing which I had tried earlier but this time I took the googles completely off. The idea using two lenses could I get the focus to come into tune. Boy, did it ever work and work beautifully. I pretty much know the spacing that I need between the two lenses. I just need now to figure out how much room I have to have between the first lens and my eye.

I will say that it is an exacting science to get the focus right on the money but it does come in and very nicely. I just need to find a source of bigger diameter lenses. Is that possible without the changing the focus of the lens itself? I'm thinking more along the lines of using it probably more as a mask kind of setup rather than as a goggle kind of setup, hence why I want the bigger diameter lens to allow both eyes to look out the same lens.

I'm definitely not an optics brainiac, and I guessing some of what I said above proves the point quite well.

Ryan

[Mlaen]

Did someone tryed to call Anchor optics to find out the material?
If this thing with Hiteck fails and material of Anchor optics is SF11 or similar perhaps we can make a deal with them?
9$ is way cheaper then 16.44 Eur!

[OceanMan]

Anchor optics is a parent company of edmund optics.

Anchor Optical carries on with this task and hopes to be of service to you and offer many of the same optical products as the original Edmund Scientific Company, as well as new industrial optics from our parent company, Edmund Optics.

I wrote an email to them for the lenses and they said to ask edmund optics ....

[devinjohnson7]

what do u fill the goggles with??

[ADR]

saline solution

[devinjohnson7]

ooohhhhh... ok thanks!! im planning to make my own fluid goggles in the next few weeks...=]
El Capitan