Re: DIY camera and Lab in one.

[Drew Bedo]

This link is from another thread here. Take a look at the ccamera and lens. I have read that this is how some street photographers worked making tintypes during the 1870s.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-5xaVfhR8

[Tin Can]

Thanks for the link!

Very cool. They imply these are for ID's and it looked like the photographer kept the negatives and one positive. Perhaps they get filed elsewhere...

He certainly uses very little chem and water!




This link is from another thread here. Take a look at the ccamera and lens. I have read that this is how some street photographers worked making tintypes during the 1870s.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-5xaVfhR8

[coisasdavida]

Last year, here in Brazil, I made a similar camera, more towards the portuguese tradition of these lab cameras, and along with a fellow photographer, I travelled the state of São Paulo taking some 5x7" images of people with paper bags over their heads. This is a link to my blog, picking the posts related to this activity:

http://refotografia.wordpress.com/tag/rxdcc/

[mdarnton]

I had my picture taken by a Mexican street photog using a similar device. He had an old press camera Bondo-grafted onto the front of a box with something like a changing bag for arm entry on the back. He shot on paper, developed in the box, rinsed the paper neg in a bucket, mounted it in a frame in front of the camera, pulled the lens out to fixed stops for 1:1, and copied it on paper, also run through the same process. Total time was about five minutes, and I received a barely-fixed, barely-washed print in a cardboard folder.

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[stawastawa]

what fun!
the barely washed part scares me, but you can always go home and do a final wash

[jnantz]

this guy is doing something similar in india
but he contact prints the negative in camera instead of photographing the negative
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?52969-150-Year-Old-LF-Camera-in-Daily-Use-in-India-(Story-LA-Times)&highlight=india

great to see there are still people working like this ...

[VPooler]

I saw a similar setup in the museum of photography in Tallinn (who is visiting Tallinn make sure to visit that museum!), those are sure interesting setups.