I'd enjoy seeing that! Thanks.
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a PDF file covering the making of a 4 x 5
view camera from Popular
Mechanics Magazine for October 1942. The file is
1,049 Kb in size. If anyone
wishes this file please let me know.
Jim Ketcheson
Ran into a note about this on the pinhole list:
http://www.englers-welt.de/grosskamera/grosskamera.html
rought translation of page:
The big camera illustrated below searches for a new
home. The device served as a process camera for
tickets(maps) and aerial photographs. The film size
lies with
I read that article -- in brief, the author took a
couple of off-the-shelf screw-on closeup lense, put
them in a tube (back to back, front of each lens
facing out of the tube), and experimented with
different spacing, and adding pieces of card with
holes in them to act as waterhouse stops. Wound
--- Gene Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chuck,
I have some graflex bodies. What are you looking
for?
..snip..
Well, since we're talking about graflex parts...
I've got a 4x5 pacemaker crown graphic with no back
that I'm refurbishing as a user camera. Anyone got a
4x5 spring back
--- John Cremati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..snip..
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or
thoughts on creating their own center filter
..snip..
surplus shed (www.surplusshed.com)has some old
metrogon center filters that might work if you're
doing BW work...
4 DIAMETER RED
--- Marv Soloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..snip..
project. I tested a
careful application of common brake fluid at one end
of the strip
shutter. Sure enough, the crazing has disappeared,
..snip..
Hmm. I'm starting to think someone either gave you a
*BIG* case of brake fluid, or you own
--- John Cremati [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone tried using Cordura Nylon as the outer
layer in bellows fabrication ? It is supposedly the
..snip..
I used black cordura for the outer layer of a bellows
last year; nice and durable, but it proved stiff,
making for a somewhat bulky and
--- Uptown Gallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..snip
And here's another insane project...I also won an
auction on a graphic arts
camera bellows, 90 extension, 15 x 15 at lens
end, about 28 x 35 at
back end (these may include flange widths), with
supporting hardware, in
excellent condition.
--- Huw Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Stepper motors can be geared and it works very well,
take a look inside
...snip...
stepper motors, hm? I'm going to try and find a
non-battery method first (just the romantic in me...
plus I'm all thumbs about electronics). Can you have
a
--- Ken Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...snip...
As for 120 base pano's. I guess I would ask how to
keep 120 film flat when
making a swing lens type of pano? The film base is
Well, my thought was to build a curved back and have a
tensioner of some sort on both film spools, so the
film is
--- Alan Zinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 05:08 PM 9/23/2002 -0700, you wrote:
I'm playing with a design for little 120 film swing
lens panoramic camera, based very roughly on the
...snip...
You need very little effort to move a balanced
pivoting lens. A light spring
or elastic with an
I'm playing with a design for little 120 film swing
lens panoramic camera, based very roughly on the old
Kodak panoramic cameras. As a first draft, I'm
thinking of simply having a long lever and swinging
the lens across the arc by hand, but eventually I'd
like to use a small clockwork to move
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how this would get done.
Wouldn't you need to turn
off the scanner lamp?
...snip...
Yah, you need to turn off, disconnect, or cover the
lamp. I've read about a couple of projects like this,
including (drat, lost the web address)
Just saw one of these at an office supply store, and
gosh if the image size isn't just right to put on a
4x5. It's powered through the USB cable, so it would
be pretty easy to carry a laptop, a 4x5 camera, and
this -- modified. Small cheap, too. Might be fun.
-- phil
Hewlett Packard Photo
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A question about making spring backs
http://home.online.no/~gjon/gg4x5.htm to be
I've been working on building a 4x5 spring back
myself, and the web site you list seems to have one of
the prettier designs.
If you can find a copy of Build Your Own View
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