Pix of your home-built cams here please

[Andy Tymon]

Hi guys, thanks for the comments on the camera. Hey Nick nice camera, you will be glad you have that flexibillity to go up in formats, the larger you go the larger you want to go!
Doh, forgot to mention the movements on the camera front has swing shift and tilt rear has tilt and some swing and the weight is 7.5lbs and 24'' of extension. I shot my first sheet of film with it over the weekend and so far so good, though I did underestimate depth of field,it really is shallower on 8x10.

Barrie don't underestimate rabies tags, inyears to come when this camera ends up on epay , people will ask "does it still have it's tags, cause these cameras really bite"

[barryjyoung]

LOL. OK

[nick mulder]

Originally Posted by Andy Tymon

Hey Nick nice camera, you will be glad you have that flexibillity to go up in formats, the larger you go the larger you want to go!

speaking of flexible - I was playing with the tilts last night - heh, I can get the lens to actually be pointing away from the film (;

just need to get a lens with that sort of coverage ...

[barryjyoung]

Today John and Andrew Austin came to Edmonds to work on the baseboards of the 8x10 field cameras they are building from scratch with the Seattle Camera Makers. Starting with rough lumber that had been jointed on one side and resawn on a table saw at Steve Allen's house, they had glued up flat panels for the baseboards when they left this afternoon. There are pics of the process the wood went through in the APUG Technical Gallery Nice work you guys.

Barry Young

[gma]

You can see pictures of the 4x5 view camera I built in 1968 at http://home.online.no/~gjon/anderson.htm

The Jon Grepstad website.

gma

[nick mulder]

first pic (I didn't ruin in the processing) is in the tech gallery ...

http://www.apug.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9463

[John Bartley]

Originally Posted by barryjyoung

Today John and Andrew Austin came to Edmonds to work on the baseboards of the 8x10 field cameras they are building from scratch with the Seattle Camera Makers. Starting with rough lumber that had been jointed on one side and resawn on a table saw at Steve Allen's house, they had glued up flat panels for the baseboards when they left this afternoon. There are pics of the process the wood went through in the APUG Technical Gallery Nice work you guys.

Barry Young

Barry,

Would you be kind enough to keep updating us with fresh pictures of the construction process please? Another interest of mine (and many others here I bet) is amateur woodworking and I'd love to see how these projects progress.

cheers

[barryjyoung]

Hi John:

I will keep posting pics every time we do some work. Then when the new pics from each session are posted I will take down the old ones to keep from wasting APUG bandwidth.

Barry

Originally Posted by John Bartley

Barry,

Would you be kind enough to keep updating us with fresh pictures of the construction process please? Another interest of mine (and many others here I bet) is amateur woodworking and I'd love to see how these projects progress.

cheers

[John Bartley]

Originally Posted by barryjyoung

Hi John:

I will keep posting pics every time we do some work. Then when the new pics from each session are posted I will take down the old ones to keep from wasting APUG bandwidth.

Barry

Thank you Barry

[John Bartley]

Originally Posted by barryjyoung

they had glued up flat panels for the baseboards when they left this afternoon. There are pics of the process the wood went through in the APUG Technical Gallery Nice work you guys.
Barry Young

Barry,

In the picture of the assembled baseboard, there seems to be a foam being squeezed from between the plys. I'm guessing it's the glue. Can you tell us what type of glue you are using and possibly the brand name? Would I be right in suspecting a urethane glue?

cheers and thank you