19. I started shooting photos at 15 and started shooting 4x5 about a year and a half ago. I'm shooting mostly 35mm with an M2 and some other Leica gear, MF with a Rolleiflex and some other assorted...
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19. I started shooting photos at 15 and started shooting 4x5 about a year and a half ago. I'm shooting mostly 35mm with an M2 and some other Leica gear, MF with a Rolleiflex and some other assorted...
My Fujinon 150 W is amazingly sharp.
The stock parts are wing nuts. Just go to a hardware store and get some nuts and washers. A fair amount of LF stuff is just common hardware store type nuts and bolts.
It's all fixed. I had the shaft "dinged", which is when they tap the shaft to deform it, and then tap the gear into position. It worked very well
I have the entire thing apart at the moment, I am quite handy. I am planning on using some type of extremely strong epoxy to keep the pieces together, unless people here have better ideas.
There are no pins, or even holes, anywhere on the gears or shaft. I was thinking that would be a fix, to drill small holes, if possible, but I would rather not drill into anything unless I had a...
I recently purchased a 4x5, it's a Calumet Wood Field, but for all intensive purposes, a Tachihara. The gears which drive the focusing rack in and out have become detached from the metal rod which...
Yeah, those camera's look excellent. I also am wondering the cost, and what hardware you used.
How many of you have made your own view camera? I'm looking into making a wooden 8x10 field to shoot paper positives with. If you've made a view camera before, I'm really interested in what the...