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It's completed! When I bought the c1890 E&T Underwood 'Instanto' quarter-plate camera, it came with a shutter that could be fitted to the front of the lens.

The shutter cloth had completely...

The camera came with a lens mounted shutter - no maker's mark - but the metalwork and woodwork were in good shape (just dirty).

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The shutter cloth was completely gone however. Anyhow it...

Just recently I took delivery of an E&T Underwood "Instanto" quarter-plate camera, complete with original meniscus lens, two DDS, the original (totally worn out) case and a shutter to mount on the...

Hello John,

The paper neg was developed in Ilford developer, then put into a stop bath. Once it had been in there for about 30 seconds or so, I took it out and put it into a water bath with a...

I managed to get out and shoot some paper negatives yesterday... the first time for quite a while. Great to get the Sinar fired up again for my latest project photographing the architecture of the...

Depending on your woodworking skills / availability of tools the other thing to do wood be to cut the affected area out and reglue a new piece of wood in its place; i.e. give yourself two new...

Yep, it's just you Plungefrog ;)

Although I can't look at the image ever again now...

I've been doing some testing today to try and ascertain the speed rating for the paper negatives - and I think it's about EI1.5 (I say that as I'm working on Weston units and it's around 1 Weston). I...

Here's my first image from this camera, taken with the Rapid Symmetrical lens and using Ilford Multigrade MGIV as a paper negative. The negative was developed in Caffenol.

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It's been ages and ages since I was last on here - kept up with the photography, but mainly digital stuff - although I did work on my Churches project using my home-made 9x12 sliding box camera.
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Yep... it's important to suffer for your art :D

Give it a go! I started doing cyanotypes earlier on in the year (an example below) and really enjoyed it. I was using the sun as my UV source and exposure times varied from 20 minutes to 9+ hours!!...

Just to finish the story, I thought I'd post an image of the printing frame in use, for real :)


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Cheers,
David.

I'll start on phase II of print frame building in a couple of weeks time, this time incorporating a few of the improvements that I've learnt from building this one.

In the meantime, I've ordered...

Hi Joe,

You are quite right in that it's complete overkill and over-engineered! But that's what I set out to do... I wanted to make one that would last for years and years. It's been great fun,...

Just a quick update on the printing frame, as I've been able to get out into the workshop today for an hour or so. I managed to create the back plates, sand them down and affix the stainless steel...

Quick update on the printing frames, as I've now made the outer frame (Oak) on the prototype version, stamped out some new leaf springs from stainless steel and made a leather handle for it. Here's a...

The clipped corners are not too bad to do as long as you have a decent glass cutter, and the proper shaped 'pliers' to break it with. After that, then you can just grind the edges down smooth and...

Well, I've made a start on manufacturing a traditional contact printing frame for print-out-papers.

Here you can see one of the stainless steel leaf springs, and the four brass knobs that I turned...

OK, I think I have enough expressions of interest to make of these at that size, so I'll create some drawings and work out a costing for them, and let you know in due course.

Thank you,
David.

Funnily enough Vlad, the comments that I've had so far have all said to make it larger than the obvious sizes - so an 8x10 destined for 4x5 use, an 11x14 for 8x10 and so on.

So, if you needed...

Hi Gene,

Yes, I've been looking around at the commercially available ones, and I'm sure some of them are indeed quite nice. But I'm not after 'quite' nice, I want 'really rather nice' ;)

I'm...

Hi all,

Having embarked on a journey with my FKD camera, and using paper negatives, I'm thinking about printing a positive using a printing out frame. I'd like to make a 'proper' one, with a...

How are you going to deal with printing the images? If you shoot 5x4 then you may well need an enlarger to suit (or scan the negatives). If you want 8x10, then you will probably be contact printing...

After working on my 18x24cm FKD camera, I've managed to take two pictures with it; both on paper negatives. The first was just of my back garden, just checking it out, but this is the second.

The...

Actually, if anyone is interested I'd be willing to grind some glass if someone needed one for their camera (although you'd have to cover my costs!). I've since learnt a couple of new things about...

Here's a quick shot taken with a point & shoot this morning of the result...


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I got it from a stone polishing place down in Cornwall. The guy's name is Paul Jeffery, and I would buy from him again; the first lot that was sent out never arrived, and after phoning him about it,...

I recently bought an 18cm x 24cm FKD camera, and when it arrived the lens had not been securely packed; during transit it had smashed the original ground glass into hundreds of pieces.

To be fair...

Nice work Kirk, I enjoyed looking through your magazine, and it's great to see another photographic magazine out there!

As Ralph said, it's really nice to be able to see a body of work from a...

I guess it had to happen, but the CiM website has been hacked and malicious code left in a little undiscovered corner of the directory structure. Fortunately, it doesn't affect the actual display of...

Just to let you all know that the April edition of the CiM magazine is available for free download - Chris has put together a fabulous issue that is largely dedicated to pinhole photography (images,...

Here's just one of the paper negatives, shot using the Kodak lens...

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It's available NOW! This special edition Glass Plate Photography book, created to raise money for charity. It is available from our storefront over at Lulu; it has 42 pages of articles, images,...

I've been able to write up a short article on how I tackled the pneumatic shutter on my Pony Premo - if anyone is interested it can be found on the Creative Image Maker website at...

Chris, I see you've been busy whilst I've been away!! Forget shutters - cut some photographic paper, expose at ISO 1.5(-ish) and use a lens cap for a shutter. The exposures at f16+ will be several...

Here's a picture of my lens / shutter from my Pony Premo - also with the same patent date as you suggest. This shutter didn't appear to work when I got it, but with a little bit of cleaning it's come...

I'm currently working on the layout for the March special (charity) edition on Glass Plate Photography which is really exciting as it will be available for free download (PDF) or printed on real...

I've been in contact with Dr Florian Kaps and offered the support of the Creative Image Maker magazine - hopefully, we'll be able to bring you news of the progress of the project as it happens.

I...

Thanks to a suggestion from a reader of CiM, I've just put up an RSS feed that you can subscribe to on the main website. If you subscribe to it, it'll be used to inform you when new articles appear,...