Glasses With Camera Lens Filters

Here's an easy way to make some glasses that you can interchange the lenses and give a nod to photography.

You'll need to have the following essential materials:

• Glasses with an approximately 52 mm diameter frame.
• 52 mm lens filters:
• UV or other clear lens for the base.
• Color filters as you like.
• Epoxy.

In addition, I found the following tools and materials helpful:

• Rotary tool (like Dremel) with a sanding or grinding bit.
• Toothpicks and paper for epoxy mixing and application.
• Disposable chopsticks or utensils and rubber bands for clamping.

First, pop out the lenses on the glasses. Then use the rotary tool to roughen up the outer part of the frame and the inner part of the clear lens filter. Then wipe the dust from those surfaces. This will help the epoxy adhere better.

Now mix up some epoxy with a toothpick or something else that's small and can be discarded. Apply some epoxy to the frame and the roughened lens filter frame, be very careful to not get epoxy on the lenses.

I made a simple clamp using chopsticks, disposable utensils, and rubber bands. Use something to get good connection between the glasses frame and the lens filters. something crude like this, proper clamps, some weight to sandwich them together... just be aware that they may slide and drift away from where you want them. So check on them for a while before things set up too much.

Pairing the same colors together for a range of lenses that match (or pop with) almost any outfit. Put the red and blue lenses in (red on viewer's left) for glasses to use at 3D movies or to view red-cyan anaglyph images. (It's not perfect, but works well enough with the lenses I have.) Or add a lens cover to one side!

These are VERY heavy. The frames that I used are extremely cheap. But these results are enough fun that I'll definitely be doing another version. And since I wear prescription glasses, they will probably involve repurposing some old lenses of mine for the foundation.