New Mammoth Camera arrives!

[Mark Sawyer]

Groovy! Did you measure the lensboard yet to see if it takes the same 9x9 as your 8x10 studio camera?

BTW, I believe mammoth plates are more properly referred to as "platters".

[goamules]

It's a 9" board, so I have a few mounted that will cover the smaller plates. For those that don't know, you can shoot multiple sizes, "down" to 8x10.

[Andrew Plume]

"platters"

that's a good one Mark, my best to you

and Mr GA, great to see that you now have 'a mammoth beast', I'll expect we'll be seeing some plates of Mrs SA and your girls too and of course my best to you too

andrew

[Jody_S]

My back hurts just looking at the photo. Nice!

[goamules]

Thanks Andrew, you can be sure I'll be doing them soon. I already have Mark making me a silver bath (when I get him the dimensions).

Jody, you should have seen the UPS guy, he carried it from the street to the door (I live in the country), all 40 lbs of it. He was sweating! No carrying for these, though John Coffer uses a big wagon wheel carriage. Google him!

[Andrew Plume]

great, thanks Garrett, brilliant effort from 'the UPS man' (- they're over here too in 'the trademark vans and brown gear')

very best

andrew

[lecarp]

Did you not once own a mule?

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Garrett, beautiful camera. Congratulations. I can relate to the fact that cameras take time to build.
Not being exactly perfect is okay as well. It is nice to see great looking wood. Big cameras are fun!Enjoy!

[goamules]

Girl and lens for scale. No, that 14" lens won't cover. I'll have to pull out the big guns. For mammoth.... cause you know they are big. And need big guns.... Mammoths do. Ah...I better get another can out of the fridge....

[goamules]

The back glass swings, the plate holder sets on two pegs, like an early Anthony. One thing I cannot fathom, is why he would make 8.5" lensboards instead of the 9" that thousands of Century, Ansco, Scovill, Folmer, and Eastman studio cameras use? So I can't just place one of my current lenses, in their 9" board, on the camera. And if I mount a lens on this camera, I can't swap it to an 8x10. If you happen to buy one of these (he makes them custom to order, but I got it from the guy that ordered it), insist on a 9 inch board.