Still – real lenses do give you that depth if you can find one of roughly the right size. This will result in coloured reflections that look quite different from the HALs in the film. Modern lenses, such as a real fisheyes, are almost always multicoated these days. The company is now bankrupt, and those people who weren’t able to get compensation from their credit cards have been left high and dry. There is also a lot of controversy associated with the seller, since the Master Replicas Group company took considerable sums of money from people promising a glossy and flashy HAL replica, but then never delivered any actual merchandise at the end of the day, and offered no refunds. These lenses are an excellent solution for HAL prop builders, but of course, are no longer available. The main difference seems to be that they’re about 1mm wider in diameter, and aren’t optically single-coated. They were carefully cast and polished glass, just like a real lens, and had almost the same proportions as the original Nikkor lens. These were apparently left over from manufacturing the Artifactory HAL 9000 prop product, and were fairly accurate. This one is tough.Ī certain seller on eBay responsible for the Artifactory and Master Replicas Group prop replica companies sold a batch of around 40-50 glass HAL replica lenses in 2021. However, it’s a ton of work to get it to look like glass, and even then it never looks quite right. It’s possible to print a replica lens using clear plastics, then polish the print to glass-like smoothness. It’s also hard to find a 74mm diameter lens. A single projector lens doesn't have quite the same effect. All the enormous curved lens elements used in the lens (camera lenses almost always consist of multiple “elements,” or more than one piece of glass inside) reflect light internally in crazy and distorting ways when you look at it from the front or the side. Those can sometimes look okay from a distance, though they tend to look too hemispherical.Īlso, real fisheye lenses have a complex characteristic look. There are highly convex lenses found in projectors or used as stamp magnifiers, and so on. The exposed glass of the Nikon is about 74mm in diameter, and the curved part of the lens is about 18.25mm tall. It’s also difficult to find a lens of the correct size. The Nikon 8mm lens is also much more bulging and protuberant than most lenses. There’s a depth to the real lens that’s readily apparent. You can’t, for example, use one of these lenses easily on a modern digital camera. They typically go for lot of money these days, though this is mainly collector value – they aren’t very useful to photographers because of their antiquated optical design. Without breaking a hole in it for the long Nikkor lens.It should be easy to make a HAL 9000 replica, right? Just buy a Nikon 8mm fisheye lens and slap it into a panel with an aluminium frame! However, the original lenses are rare and really freakin’ expensive. His idea over, because its good way to get the panel mounted on the wall, 4x threated pins for the wall mount system (NOT CONFIRMED)<- I took (for the supposed attachment system, which he tried to reproduce) 4x counter bores with equal spacing on top and bottom trims (he took dimensions from the original prototype) More details from Denis Gilliam's 1:1 prototype rebuild. Cross bar (trim) is at the same height as the other trims 8x holes with counter bores with equal spacing on sides Trims do have a rabbet cut outs of the edges black brushed anodized aluminum panel face Show the panel from the side gave me following information: ![]() Thanks to Mikes (Sith Sheriff Brody) reference pictures, that The panels depth dimension is mentioned in the description, on the Christies Prototype auction site (you know exactly what I'm talking about :lol)ĭuring the long shipping time from US to Germany, I started to do more research on the prototype panel,īecause it's clearly the basis for the screen used HAL. I just couldn't resist after already having hold an original lens in my hands, It started with a little luck on an eBay Nikkor lens auction. These two became operational at the H.A.L. It toke me some time to build these with the acuracy and very close tolerances, but I think they are as acurrate as they can possibly be to the screen used HAL. Just after finishing my first HAL Panel, I decided to bring it to the next level and started to build these two: Re: HAL 9000 Panel (2001:A Space Odyssey)
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