A couple of years back I assisted a London Photographer who has been building his own cameras for about 25 years, culminating in a tlr 9x9 rollfilm camera (using NASA-style film) which he uses film production dollies to focus on.
I would like to build a bigger than 8x10, lightweight ulf camera, not sure exact format yet, with a view to buying bellows from one of the Chinese ebayers.
My ambitions are slightly more modest, I have no woodworking skills but have friends and acquaintances who do. I've fancied learning some of those skills for a while, so if I was to take a night class or apprentice myself and assuming that I won't find someone who is actually a camera maker,
should I be looking for an instrument maker, cabinet maker?
I'm sure similar topics have been covered in the forum before so any links to appropriate conversations or external sites would be much appreciated.
Also would be curious to hear about practicalities like ordering film, choices in Ireland are 0, I can't even get Foma 8x10 unless I order 10 boxes at a time.
Silverprint in London stock some 8x10, does anyone buy directly from Ilford or other manufacturers?
Thanks, any helpful pointers would be appreciated.
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