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Cute. How do you time exposures?
A packard shutter is on its way to daddy. I built the front box large enough to accommodate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Fromm
Up till then, I'll use paper since the film has not arrived yet.
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Lightweight 4x5" field camera (1615 gram). I made the camera to have a light and compact field camera for our trip to Bretagne (starting next wednesday). To keep the weight down, I evaluated all movements that I use a lot and decided to limit movements to keep the weight down.
I promise this will be the last camera I will build this year.
It is built out of oak and aluminium and includes:
- friction lock focussing
- rotating back
- rear and front tilt, back twist and front rise/fall
The bellows is made out of bookbinders linen/leatherette. It turns out to be a bit on the stiff side.
Building time: about 2 weeks. I think I'm getting a hand of it :)
The camera is here shown both with a Schneider Symmar convertible, both focussed at 1500mm and 265mm.
Don't worry. Only another five and a half months to go!!Quote:
Originally Posted by argus
Steve.
Looks really good.
I have built one 5x4" camera which I am fairly pleased with but it does not fold up. It is my intention to build a lightweight folding camera like this one fairly soon. Did you build from plans (are they available anywhere?) or do you use my method of designing whilst building?
Steve.
How embarrassing...a photo of it sitting on the scales, for the whole world to see ;)
Nice job on both cameras...so which format is next?
wish I could get argus to make me a 12x20
:)
well done argus. yet again.
I sure feel humbled by some of the creations here!
but, here is my 4x10 pinhole camera made from a modified Compact Disk Box Set..
inside the camera with paper negative inside.. http://blog.depressing.org/archives/inside2-thumb.jpg
front of camera showing the shutter and 'lens' http://blog.depressing.org/archives/3-thumb.jpg
rear of camera showing its snazzy looks! http://blog.depressing.org/archives/open-thumb.jpg
only good for one shot at a time!
due to the racks that used to hold CD's this camera also works great for 4x5 sheet film which fits snugly against the rear of the camera..
http://images.depressing.org/art/115...1d25baf341.jpg one of the 4x10 shots on ilford MGIV RC glossy paper negative, printed on mgIV fb
http://images.depressing.org/art/191...1d23d16cbe.jpg a 100% crop of the above image (from a 300dpi scan of the print) to show the relative sharpness
http://blog.depressing.org/archives/kitchen.jpg 4x5 image from the same camera using a different lens that is less sharp..
Hmm. Its hard to judge sharpness from small digitized images, but yours are sharper than I'd have have expected. How did you choose the pinhole's size?
Remember, if a home-made camera does what you want, it isn't ugly.
Cheers,
Dan
I worked with the camera for over a year and built many many pinholes until I was able to get one that appeared 'sharp enough' i.e. very smallQuote:
Originally Posted by Dan Fromm