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  1. #101

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Please tell us a LOT more about the shutter
    regards
    Ed

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Quote Originally Posted by EdWorkman View Post
    Please tell us a LOT more about the shutter
    regards
    Ed
    Yes please!

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Ed, Colin..., the shutter is nothing new. Have to be carefully separate from the camera.
    Try to bring everything out, screws, camera back, bed, RF, etc. Then, cut the camera wooden part that holds the entire mechanism. Pacemakers are a little more complicate, so better find old speeds with focal shutters in good working order. The biggest the camera format, the biggest covering for the barrels. The one in the picture is a 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. I have another one in the way, a 4x5.
    Glad you are interested in these, they are really reliable and light.
    If there is any more questions, let me know.

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    So that's a speed graphic- I bought two with that in mind, an anniv and a pre-anniv, but I can't bear the thought of hacking them- and I got the second one cuz I couldn't hack the first one. I keep thinking I might find an uuuuugly one with a good shutter..... this has gone on for a lotta years now.......
    So one more query- I might be able to bring myself to hack a 3x4- what's the largest lens barrel diameter you can fit into a 3x4 speed?
    thanks very much
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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    It depends on lens construction, focal length, and what one wants to achieve !
    The 3x4 offers a +/- 4x4 opening on shutter, one thing to do is to open the camera back and observe the mechanism behavior, this will show range of possibility's.
    Try;-)

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Thanks for the info Miguel, that's such a great idea.

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    What Colin said
    my thanks too
    regards
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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Well, this is the third time this thing has been posted here,
    in various stages of its development.

    The first was a lo-fi thing, with a 50mm plastic lens,
    like a Holga, but wider and madder-
    the second, a rather more grown-up Super Angulon version, 65mm ƒ/8.

    Now it's finished, everything has been sorted out, and it has a choice of lenses.

    The lens mount is unchanged, but I found a 75mm lens in a cheap eye loupe in a tool shop,
    and it was nearly the right size to fit in the shutter-
    I ground down the edges, and now it's interchangeable with the SA-
    by simply removing the cells, and replacing them with the biconvex loupe lens, held in place by two O rings.

    So it's like a hybrid of the first two versions, with a longer dodgy lens,
    giving a proportionately larger image circle, like the Holga-

    I also addressed some issues with the film back- I deepened the recess,
    and added retaining clips for roll film and Polaroid backs,
    and added some seals, which the original version didn't have at all.

    I also slimmed down the viewfinder housing, making it a little less chunky-

    I've just got the shutter back from repair,
    so haven't had much of an opportunity to use it yet-
    it gets it's first outing in this guise this weekend-

    Full story of this camera can be found on my local forum-


    http://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=28210









  9. #109
    Claudio Santambrogio
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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Joseph, looks very elegant - I really *love* the top view's profile

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Well thank you-
    Apologies for bumping this up,
    but it's finished now- previous versions, although they worked,
    weren't as well sorted as this one.

    Now that I'm happy with the back,
    I feel a lightweight field camera coming on...

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