Show us your home made camera...

[kooyoungchung]

To Ezzie

Your link was my inspiration.
It looks so elegant.
Only difference is that I'm making 6x12.

I'm trying to fuse two 6x7 Mamiya backs to make a 6x12film cartridge and film rail.
It is my long(really long) term project.

[boxcustom]

Here is my 4x5 point and shoot camera.
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[c.sharpe.7]

I like it. All metal.

Thanks for that: The camera works well but I also bought a Crown Graphic 5" x 4", stripped it down totally (paid £38.00 for it in poor condition), re-covered with new leather; removed the range finder parts and reversed the front standard - plus repaired bellows . . . so now I have a much lighter camera that fits in my Lowepro bag.

I did enjoy the experience of making my camera and through that I learned a lot during my research, about large format photography. Would I do it again? perhaps not - the time & energy was excessive (but interesting) and the original purpose of building my own, was because I couldn't afford the price of a decent camera at the time.

[Grimm_is_new_to_4x5]

Tatarada ! Victor the Afghan 4x5 (Locally called El' Nashdar) , and he's truly best friend forever Lucky Louis (frome France) the tripod ( Vic & Lou ) .
I LF baptised them in some development fluid.

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Here is a new shot of my 14x17. I rebuilt the base of the camera and made it more solid. On the front is my Hermagis Edioscope #1 19" lens with its own Packard shutter box behind it. It is now a beast!

[Steve Smith]

It's not finished yet but today it started looking like a camera rather than some bits of wood and brass so I thought I would post a picture.



I think I am going to have to make some less droopy bellows or find a way of stiffening these up a bit.


Steve.

[deranium]

Here is my first LF camera. Fixed focus 4x5 with 150mm f5.6 schneider lens. Probably not the best lens for fixed focus, but it's the only one I have.
DoF is reasonable when stopped down a bit. I am though, generally disappointed by the overall lack of sharpness.
The screen is a piece of sand-blasted glass from my local glass supplier, only cost a couple of pounds, and works better than the piece I ground myself using silicon carbide.
I am using Shanghai film developed with Iford ID-11 for 10 mins at 20C.

[jon.oman]

Here is my first LF camera. Fixed focus 4x5 with 150mm f5.6 schneider lens. Probably not the best lens for fixed focus, but it's the only one I have.
DoF is reasonable when stopped down a bit. I am though, generally disappointed by the overall lack of sharpness.
The screen is a piece of sand-blasted glass from my local glass supplier, only cost a couple of pounds, and works better than the piece I ground myself using silicon carbide.
I am using Shanghai film developed with Iford ID-11 for 10 mins at 20C.

Not bad for your first home made camera! My first one was not a success.....

[zuiko90]

Yes, the print does not look sharp. Either focused short of infinity or too close to the film and beyond infinity. I've tried a 90 f6.8 Angulon as a fixed focus on a 4X5 box camera. Tried to shim it right to infinity and let the rest of the distances fall where they may. Very hard to get it just right although I had somewhat sharper results.

[Andrew O'Neill]

My 14x17 Birch I slapped together a couple of years ago. Bellows is very stiff but light light. GG is sanded plexi. Aluminum is from Home Depot. Knobs from Lee Valley. The lens on it is a 355 G Claron. It's a clunker, but it works.