Show us your home made camera...

[rosshj]

Here's my 8x10 I built. I constructed it out of poplar for the body, MDF for the film and ground glass holder and fake leather for the bellows. Took about 40 to 50 hours to build. I designed it in Sketch (UI design tool I use at work). Every part was made by me except the lens, which is a Fujinon 300mm f5.6.

I've shot paper negatives, x-ray film and now tintypes and ambrotypes. I've also made a 4x5 reducing back for it.

[Tin Can]

Very nice camera build and images.

I also like your sturdy monopod!

[John Kasaian]

Yikes! This thread just caused me flashbacks of that terrible, ill-fated frozen turkey pinhole camera!

[MAubrey]

I finally have a light tight solution that converts my 4x5 Bender into a 5x7 camera. Now I can easily shoot both formats with just a quick change. I got the Bender on the auction site for $50 and the 5x7 back is from a Kodak Eastman 5x7 from the 1930's. That camera was lacking in movements--limited to front shift and tilting back. I'm pretty happy with the result. 5x7 Ilford Harman DP's on the way now.


Bender 5x7 Upgrade by Mike Aubrey, on Flickr

[simos]

First post here...

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4x5 (9x12) 'point and shoot' camera.
Schneider-Kreuznach SA 65 mm f 8 Linhof Technika circa 1967.
Copper and wood, and and somthing else. 100% recycling things.

[EdSawyer]

Very nice! Love the copper!

[DrTang]

Most of my projects come about from either a 'really good deal'...or a harebrained idea

this one combined the two

got a Briggs 4x5 Aerial camera body for cheap..had a back but no lens cone or whatever it used

dug around looking for something to use and found an old Lindahl Bellows lens shade

so with a extra lensboard, a 150 lens that was sitting around, a focus finder off a Polaroid Big Shot, some JB Weld and black gaffers tape - I now have a handheld

4x5 camera

[Dan Fromm]

Interesting. Where did the spring back come from? I don't see a focusing scale or a rangefinder coupling. How do you use the RF?

[EdSawyer]

Tang: awesome. I have used bigshot rangefinders on a couple of Cambo Maxiportraits (Mikso gets the credit for the idea of course). They work great, the really long (relatively) baselength makes for very sensitive and accurate rangefinder.

[DrTang]

Interesting. Where did the spring back come from? I don't see a focusing scale or a rangefinder coupling. How do you use the RF?

the back came with.... the RF is not quite a rangefinder so much as a focus finder... it came from a Polaroid Big Shot (I just hacksawed it right off) and is fixed at a specific distance... one focuses by moving back and forth until the images come together... I figure out how to adjust the distance inside of it..so I can adjust for the lens