[pure-silver] Re: Large camera plans
- From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:19:08 -0800
There was a book out about ten years ago called build your own large format
camera in which you built a monorail based in large part on using a standard
tripod rail for the tricky bits. I built a 5x7 very loosely based on this
which I enjoyed. Another book which should make interesting reading is
"photographic cameras and Accessories" reprinted by Lindsay Publications, this
is a reprint of a 1901 classic and has a fair amount of plans including (not
that I would recommend going that route) plans for shutters.
It includes plans for studio and pocket cameras. Their website is
www.lindsaybks.com and the isbn is 1-55918-252-0
There is also info out on the web for a fixed focus light weight 8x10, the
"Hobo" which is I think also available in kit, and which looks like another
interesting solution to the portable largeformat landscape problem. It would
probably be fun to adapt this to a fixed distance portrait camera and would
probably only take a couple of hours work to build if your handy with tools:-
which I'm not!
I hope some of this helps,
All the best
Larry Cuffe
On Friday, December 01, 2006, at 05:52PM, "Mark Blackwell"
<mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Thats a good idea and worth a try. I could just break down and design one but
>frankly I would have to go through at least 3 or 4 rebuilds before I got one I
>could use.
>
>Ideally I think I would like something fairly light weight, more along the
>lines of a field camera. Being portable would be the key. Since I have a D2
>4x5 would probably be as big as I would want the film to be.
>
>I did a google search and was surprised a really how few choices other than
>the bender kits were out there.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: afterswift@xxxxxxx
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> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:53 AM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Large camera plans
>
>
> You might be able to get plans from Eastman House Museum in Rochester.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 8:53 AM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Large camera plans
>
>
> Well taking the largest camera ever used in a slightly different direction,
> I am soon going to build a camera. Ive seen the Bender plans, and I am a fair
> woodworker. Yet I would be interested to know if there are other common plans
> out there, and if you have built one was it used successfully.
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