DIY wide angle 4X5 camera I made at work (aircraft maintenance facility)
Hi.
I started with a Fotoman 80mm helical, a 4X5 Horseman ground glass, and a Hugo Meyer coated 80mm f/6.8 (4E/4G).
Prototyping : :o I chose maximum difficulty with the shape, a truncated pyramid. :p All main parts in 3mm thick H111 aluminium and thin parts in 2024T3 0,5mm thick.
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Let's begin with the easiest part, helical front plate and M2 threads
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Re: DIY wide angle 4X5 camera I made at work (aircraft maintenance facility)
Re: DIY wide angle 4X5 camera I made at work (aircraft maintenance facility)
Well done! It really has that antique airplane look, especially with those rivets. Were you able to saw those first parts at an angle or did you sand them?
I didn't know there were such large helicals, ideal solution to save a lot of fine adjustments. That is still easy to do with wood, but with aluminum it seems quite difficult / a lot of work.
Perhaps it is still an idea to make the front plate on which the lens is mounted adjustable in height, then you may be able to do some rise/fall. Although that is of course more difficult to keep light-tight (perhaps with felt if you can miss the thickness) and the lens must have enough image circle.
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All parts has been cut first with an electric saw, then with a hand saw and then the angles were made with files for the thickest parts. Other parts with thin aluminium sheets were cut with a shear. Very basic tools.
Back in the days we were taught at school to make surfaces only with files and a piece of chalk with tolerances close to 0,02mm. Here assembly tolerances were +/-0,05mm so I have 0,1mm errors, except for the lens mount which has been precisely shimed.
I went to the simplest way, because my 80mm (that I like very much) does not have a very large useable image circle. Approx. 170mm at f/22.
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Well done!
What lens is that?
Re: DIY wide angle 4X5 camera I made at work (aircraft maintenance facility)
Hello this is a Hugo Meyer Aristotigmat Weitwinkel 80mm f/6.8 postwar coated 4 elements in 4 groups. It is a prewar formula that you would find on early linhof 9X12 cameras. It is good at f/16 best at f/22.
Re: DIY wide angle 4X5 camera I made at work (aircraft maintenance facility)
I use the same shutter with a 90mm f6.8 Wollensak
In a 3D printed point and shoot, handheld 4X5
with flashbulb very light weight
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Originally Posted by
Mael
Hello this is a Hugo Meyer Aristotigmat Weitwinkel 80mm f/6.8 postwar coated 4 elements in 4 groups. It is a prewar formula that you would find on early linhof 9X12 cameras. It is good at f/16 best at f/22.
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Nice !
Just curious those are interesing clamps you're using, who makes them ?
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What a great look this camera has. Dare I say "steampunk", but in a good way. Showing the construction details is much appreciated, even though I could probably never replicate the skill here.
