I will guess that the opening in the washer exposes 7 teeth of the saw blades, resulting in 7 pinholes in a line. You have 7 images superimposed. It's a neat effect, I like the self-portrait that you posted!
Mike Vande Bunt figuref...@aol.com wrote: > ok everyone, > The results are in.This sawblade lens needs further testing.As far as > i can > tell ,i am getting many images side by side.I guess this is partly to > do with > diffraction?Am i right? > Anyways i ran out of time today and it was raining.i used up a bunch > of > film,and i am getting closer to a usable image :)Here is an > interesting > observation though! > The horizontal lines in the image seem pretty sharp.But the verticals > have > about 7 lines for each single line. > Any ideas? > Harry