What did you do for bellows (the biggest expense I see)? I'm leaning towards ebaying a decent set of bellows and ground glass and building around them...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: Re: OT:Homebrewing a LF lens > I'm ashamed to say I copied my design 99% from this site. > http://www.aplac.hut.fi/~sakari/alnus45.html > I've cobbled together a simple 4x5 made mostly of baltic birch which easily > obtained at local crafts store. Jon Grepstad's > http://home.online.no/~gjon/ pages are a wonderful refernce I didn't buy his > book but I wish I had it probably would have saved me a lot of headaches > making the back. I have to confess this was my second attempt the first was > a 5x7 which I gave up on after a couple of weeks. I thought about an 8x10 > but like you I have more time than money and I could justify the roughly $2 > per shot of Tri-X that comes along with it. > > Evan > > From: "Michael Yehle" > > I'm working my way into LF, did you design your own camera? I've found > the > > norwegion site for camera builders - any other recomendations for books? > > Having way more time than money, I'm thinking about doing this for 8x10... > > > > thx > > > > Mike Y > > > > >
