My Home made 4x5 P&S Camera

[nana sousa dias]

I made this camera with parts of a Cambo Portrait 4 lenses camera, plywood and some other cheap parts, like drawer handles. The lens I used is a Schneider Super Angulon 47mm XL wich covers 4x5" without much room for movements. It's fixed focus, I fixed it for 3 meters (about 9 feet). For fixing the right focus distance, I used 3 plywood sheets wich I will change for an exotic wood one with the same thickness of the 3 sheets.

[Colin Corneau]

Cool! I'm not at all handy...couldn't hammer a nail to save my life.

Have you considered using this for street photography or more impromptu shooting?

[2F/2F]

Good job, and nice pic. Looks like a super fun camera!

How far were you from the cliffs?

[mark]

That is pretty. I am a sucker for nice woodwork. The image cool too. Good job on both accounts.

[dwdmguy]

Wow. Just wonderful work.

[illumiquest]

Nicely done! I wonder if you could find a better option for focusing? I was thinking the rail out of an RB67 might work well for a DIY camera, they're dirt cheap now.

[Steve Smith]

I don't think a focusing mechanism is needed for a 47mm lens on 5x4. I was considering hyperfocal focus for my 6x12 format camera with a 65mm lens (link below) but in the end I modified part of an Olympus lens to do the focusing.

What did you use for a viewfinder? I made mine from some spare lens elements.


Steve.

[rafaelpeme]

Beautiful camera.

[Jeff Kubach]

Excellant work on the camera and good image. Very impressive.

Jeff

[nana sousa dias]

Cool! I'm not at all handy...couldn't hammer a nail to save my life.

Have you considered using this for street photography or more impromptu shooting?

The camera was built with that in mind, too. I'll have to buy a box of HP5+ for that purpose...