I have an Ansco Studio stand camera that I've taken apart and started to refurbish. Hopefully I'll have it complete by next year when we plan to move North. It definitely needs alot of display space.
I have an Ansco Studio stand camera that I've taken apart and started to refurbish. Hopefully I'll have it complete by next year when we plan to move North. It definitely needs alot of display space.
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"Searching for the moral justification for selfishness" JK Galbraith
Go to Blue Ridge Woodworking and click onto the Festool video showing a matching dark box and wet plate camera under construction. They won 2nd place in last
yrs Festool project competition. If one of my own customers did a "camera as furniture" project it would easily sell for 50K, maybe more. Some of them sell coffee
tables or deck benches for more than that apiece.
Pretty cool, Drew!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAA9goESAtw
Most anything by Folmer & Schwing...
If I wish to get super critical....I'd build the unit from scratch. This way it would have a visual balance (wood grain, interesting combination of woods, made precisely, have a desired finish, etc) and be a functional
as well.
Les
I have always wished that I had negotiated the purchase of this loan. It was a very cool thing to have around the house:
Michael, and Camera
by Michael Darnton, on Flickr
Thanks, but I'd rather just watch:
Large format: http://flickr.com/michaeldarnton
Mostly 35mm: http://flickr.com/mdarnton
You want digital, color, etc?: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stradofear
I love the black Senecas, with the polished nickel trim. Otherwise, one of the classic British field cameras would be my choice.
Kent in SD
In contento ed allegria
Notte e di vogliam passar!
I once owned a (non-functional) 8x10 R.O.C. "Carlton". Some of the most beautiful mahogany and wood-working I've ever seen. It was, I believe, from the 1890s. If I was in your situation, I'd look for a c.1900 camera... the older you look, often, the better the wood and the craftsmanship will be.
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