I saw the image of your camera. It is quite nice. I have seen many reference to the
View Camera Magazine article. I don't think my library is large enough to carry that
magazine, so I am not sure where I could find it.
-- Bradley
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From: "J. Wayde Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:54:30 -0700 (MST)
>On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Bradley Small wrote:
>
>> Me again. I have looked high and low, and near as I can tell, the only
>> plans I can find for a view camera are
>>
>> 1. Jon Grepstad's book
>> 2. Rudolf Mittelmann's Formicula (8x10)
>> 3. Vail's photos of his design
>>
>> I assume that the more I look at the better the ideas I will get. Are
>> there more that I just can't find through Yahoo, and Google? Are there
>> any other books available on the subject besides Jon's?
>
>There are plans out there if you keep looking. I think it was just
>yesterday that the following web site was posted to this list, and it has
>some plans (see http://www.rhoadescameras.bizland.com/). Searching the
>list archives would probably turn up links to more designs. Take a look
>at:
>
> http://rmp.opusis.com/cgi-bin/htsearch
>or http://rmp.opusis.com/pipermail/cameramakers/
>
>depending on how you want to look around.
>
>I started a list of cameramaker links at
><http://rmp.opusis.com/theory.html>. You'll need to scroll down towards
>the bottom of the page. I'm planning on rolling this over into a
>cameramakers page to go along with the mailing list when I get the chance.
>Some of these guys, Jon Grepstad in particular I think, has links to other
>cameramakers who often have designs listed.
>
>There is at least another book on cameramaking I purchased a while
>back. I don't remember the title, but I think it is advertised in View
>Camera magazine. The plans in that book are for a monorail made out of
>copper tubing. It had some interesting ideas, but wasn't quite what I was
>looking for. The View Camera Magazine <http://www.viewcamera.com/> has
>run a few articles that you would be interested in. There is a good one
>on bellows making and John Layton wrote an article on building a wooden
>field camera. You should be able to locate the magazine issue dates in
>the list archives or from the View camera site.
>
>I built a camera based on the View Camera magazine's plans. You can see a
>picture of it at <http://rmp.opusis.com/cameras/my4x5_2.jpg>. If you
>decide to go this route we should probably talk since there are several
>modifications I had to make in order for this camera to work.
>
>I would appreciate it if you keep track of the information sources you dig
>up. We can use these to build a cameramakers web page that could help the
>next guy with these kind of questions.
>
>- Wayde
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