While looking for a good way to organise my camera gear inside a IKEA Kallax shelf, I was pointed by Chris Marquardt to gridfinity. Gridfinity is an open source system of grids which are used as a base to place containers and other elements to store items. Thanks to the community, there are already grids available in the format of Kallax drawers. For Autodesk Fusion 360 (free for personal use), there is even a plugin that can generate Gridfinity elements.
Equipped with this, I got to work and designed suitable inserts for one of my cameras, the Canon EOS R8. I currently only have a 50mm lens for the camera. However, since I plan to buy a zoom lens in the near future, I wanted to keep the area modular, so I don’t have to reprint everything if I decide to use a different lens with the camera. I used my 3D scanner to scan the camera and create the inserts for it. I used the split line between two grids as center line for the lens. The center axis of the lens is 45mm above the upper face of the base grid. I ended up with the design shown below.
I added additional elements for the charger and some filters. I’ve uploaded some of the to thingiverse:
- Canon EOS R8 Gridfinity base
- Canon RF 50 1.8 STM Lens holder
- Canon LC-E17E Battery Charger holder
- HOYA Filter holder (55mm)
I’m planning to also create cradles for my EOS M System (2 Bodies, several lenses), my old EOS System and my compact cameras. But this will take a while.