Pix of your home-built cams here please

[himself]

looks like a good idea to be sure, but I imagine 'twould have to stay at full length...

[nick mulder]

Yep,

One trade off for sure ... but the good thing is they are as rigid and repeatable/accurate as anything out there - of course you'd have to design the rest of the camera to the same spec to retain that.

[himself]

hmm, not sure the trade off is worth it tho' you know.
walking through a crowd, wouldn't want to take someone's eye out like

[nick mulder]

up to you - there are larger, heavier and pointier things in my camera arsenal than a linear bearing...

Try working in cine

Or fishing, or kites or ...

[himself]

ok, but I'm used to the pointiest thing on my person being my elbows - so it best for everyone if I stay streamlined

[SebastianKrauss]

I have been reading in this forum for a long time now. Time to show something. I am building a portrait camera around a Leitz Hektor 200/2.5 projector lens. The shutter box is a Speed Graflex of smaller format that i bought without ground glass, stuck shutter and rotten bellows very cheap. I serviced the shutter. The bellows and the international back come from Sinar. I still have to construct a bed and focusing mechanism and do some painting :-) But it will be cool. Due to the fast lens the ground glass is as bright as my led-tv. It is easy to switch the Back from horizontal to vertikal and with 36cm of bellows draw you can shoot very tight. The dof will be extremely shallow. I think, this ugly guy will produce a really special look.

regards,
Wasti

[wildbill]

coolest bellows I've ever seen!

that thing looks great!!

I thought I'd add a couple shots of my newly finished creation.

it takes a 6x9 back and 3x4 polaroid film back and has tilt/swing, a little lift but not shift. I made it entirely out of recycled and scavenged parts, but the lens board was made by a collagist friend of mine.

the runners need redesigning and I could do with a lens with a bit more coverage for full movements, but beggars can't be choosers.

this is my first full build so be nice
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[John Austin]

Do modifications count here?

If so, here is my 10x8" Tachyhara with Sinar shutter, which now means justifying another Sinar Shutter cable so I don't end up miles from home with the shutter in one kit and the cable rlse in another, it could happen

[himself]

coolest bellows I've ever seen!

thanks

and Wasti, what are you going to mount that thing on?
looks good tho'

[SebastianKrauss]

thanks

and Wasti, what are you going to mount that thing on?
looks good tho'

on a simple wood board and a solid tripod