Vertical Banquet Camera Project

[Blacky Dalton]

Here is an interesting DIY camera project that just showed up on this web site;

http://www.jbhphoto.com/vcam/vcams.htm

This is a complicated camera building project!

B. Dalton

[domenico Foschi]

That's craftmanship! What a beautiful camera, thank you Blacky.

[Jim Ewins]

Perhaps one could say awesome.

[Steve McKinney]

Oh...my...god.

[Brian C. Miller]

Now, that's something to eat up the idle hours you'd otherwise spend in the darkroom! :-)

I remember learning all of that stuff in commercial shop class in high school. Shop was a requirement, and all of it was geared for commercial application. No bird houses, but we learned how to install counters, cabinets, run lathes, etc.

I'm glad I live in a small apartment. I'd wouldn't produce many pictures because I'd have so much fun doing stuff like that. My Dremel projects are bad enough...

[Brian C. Miller]

I went over their website, and I realised that there are no vertical "panoramic" pictures. Here we have monster vertical cameras, and no associated pictures! Bummer!

[Oren Grad]

Brian, there are a couple on the last page of the sequence:

www.jbhphoto.com/vcam/vcams4.htm

[Michael Kadillak]

Wow!

I have always been an admirer of ingenuity and the willingness to execute especially when it is beyond ones current expertise. Hats off to this husband and wife team!

Makes you feel good that there are still people in this country that can say "Why Not" and make it happen.

I can think of no better avenue for his project than to kindly request that it be put it into some form of sharing content. A book, CD or at the very least a presentation to a ULF conference. This knowledge base needs to shared.

Cheers!

[Paul Fitzgerald]

Hi there,

Thanks for the link. Is there ANY doubt large format is alive and well? Those projects are marvelous.

Thanks for the smile.

[Brian Vuillemenot]

What a beautiful camera- looks like a Wisner copy. Doesn't Wisner make vertical banquet cameras? He claims he does on his website...