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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Nice. That's the later (?) model body, one of mine is like that. Does yours have the measuring tape built into the bottom? Or is it that purple thing on the side? Mine like that body has a metal tape measure built into the base. That is the better of the two types of viewfinders, I think. Any particular reason to take the handle off? I find it handy and use it on mine, but I don't use a monopod either... Did you take off the built-in cable release?

    I find framing and shooting by having the rangefinder to be way faster than any other method. It's got a long baselength too, at least 5.5" so it's quite accurate/sensitive.

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    it came w/o the handle, cable release and measuring tape

    I will rig up some handle before taking it 'out' probably

    the measuring tape is a 3 dollar one that just happened to be 5' in length

    I have a couple 'sawed off' big shot rangefinders sitting around.. maybe I'll try one of them

    the parallax worries me though

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Not quite finished, but it was ready to expose some film last weekend. My 5x4 folding field camera.

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Quote Originally Posted by DrTang View Post
    it came w/o the handle, cable release and measuring tape

    I will rig up some handle before taking it 'out' probably

    the measuring tape is a 3 dollar one that just happened to be 5' in length

    I have a couple 'sawed off' big shot rangefinders sitting around.. maybe I'll try one of them

    the parallax worries me though
    That outfit has got to scare children. Maybe not!

    Since you are on monopod, you also need to control sway just as your victim does. How do you handle the tape measure?

    Do you have them grab it, hold to forehead and then just let it go and you snap asap? Assuming it is auto rewind.
    Tin Can

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Quote Originally Posted by Randy Moe View Post
    That outfit has got to scare children. Maybe not!

    Since you are on monopod, you also need to control sway just as your victim does. How do you handle the tape measure?

    Do you have them grab it, hold to forehead and then just let it go and you snap asap? Assuming it is auto rewind.

    we'll see - I haven't used it yet out in the open

    I'm sure everything will be a mess..but I might get some cool images out of it anyway

    I plan on corning my subject..then pulling out the tape and having them put it to their forhead..then they hold still and drop it and I shoot

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    That looks great! If you have more photos please post! Is that your own design?

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    I will post pics of my 2nd one (Cambo Maxiportrait) when I get a chance. Parallax is not a huge issue, since when fabbing up a bracket, you can adjust the angles of the rangefinder/viewfinder to accommodate parallax. Mine frames up almost perfectly so far. Since it has a fixed focal distance, you only need to correct it for that one distance so it is fairly easy to dial it in.

    Handle should be easy to come up with. I have thought of using a linhof grip on one of mine, as I find the cambo handle flimsy (but it is light).

    -Ed

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    Found this and thought it pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-V3Qqx4Qpk

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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    some upgrade
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    Re: Show us your home made camera...

    After last year's prototype I built a larger camera this year. Made for Fuji HR-T 15x30 cm film it could perhaps be considered an ULF size camera as the image diagonal is larger than that of 8x10, but the surface area is not.

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    The camera is not quite ready yet, I will attach a sleeved dark bag to the top of the camera so that I can change the film in the field. Right now I only have a simple lid and have to take it into the darkroom for every shot.

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    There's a bit more about the camera and some sample images on my blog: https://photofying.wordpress.com/201...camera-project

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