Show us your home made camera...

[vinny]

Damn Colin, you blow my mind every time. Nice work. I'll eventually post my 8x10 once I paint it but it's not gonna be easy following work like this.

[Wolfgang AM]

Wow. Really nice work! You must have a fully equipped workshop available for that.

[Andrew Plume]

absolutely brilliant Colin

regards

andrew

[Colin Graham]

Thanks guys!

Wolfgang- yeah I used to be a carpenter so I have a pretty decent garage shop. At metalworking I'm still a complete hack, but I try to get a little better at it with each project. I'm lucky to still have all of my fingers with some of the crap I pulled on this one.

[Wolfgang AM]

Well Colin I think you are not so bad in matal working either!

If you want to look at my diy camera: http://www.largeformatphotography.in...525#post797525

By the way, did you produce all those knobs yourself also?

[Colin Graham]

Nice work!

I got the knobs from McMaster Carr and Reid Supply. No lathe yet. I usually get blanks if I can because the stock knobs never seem to be bored or threaded for the shaft sizes I need. But there are thread-repair kits or inserts that help reduce them to the necessary sizes if I can't get blanks.

[Wolfgang AM]

And your rack (of the rack and pinion drive), is it made of brass or plastic? Mine is plastic and the pinion is metal and I always wonder how long this combination will last, because there is quite a load on it when you tilt the camera on the tripod.

[pound]

[QUOTE=Colin Graham;1092981]A 5x7 I made last spring. Sort of a fugly step-child of Gandolfi and Lotus. There's a rambling 2-part dairy of the project here- http://colinflanarygraham.com/darkshop/?p=1226


wow, it sure look professionally made. Thanks for documenting the process in yr blog.

[sepiareverb]

There's a few other project dairies on my site; I liked using the camera so much I made new holders for it and a new tripod as well.

Fascinating reading, and magnificent work. Both in the shop and under the dark cloth.

[Colin Graham]

Thanks for the kind words.

Robert-wow, very arresting and unusually beautiful work on your site. I really enjoyed spending time there this morning. Great sequences. Thanks for the inspiration.