Its finished (the camera i said i wanted to make)

[Jake Middleton]

Some of you may remember me saying i wanted to make a large format camera my self in 8x10

well here it is. The below picture is of my dad - i took this picture on enlargeing paper. I havent yet tryed film but have ordered some ilford ortho film and look foreward to trying that. This camera was never intended for field use, it is primarily for portraits and, well its made of chipboard but seems to work.

It is a slideing box camera of a primitive type - the back part you can see is the slideing element and has an attatchment for plate holder and focussing screen

[wfwhitaker]

Congratulations, that's neat. There's a lot to be said for simplicity. I look forward to seeing some of your ortho results.

[Archphoto]

It looks gooooood ! Congrad's !

Why ortho by the way and not regular pan-film ?

Peter

[Jake Middleton]

i wanted to use ortho because i can develop it under a red safelight and inspect the process - due to my shutter system that is worked by hand the exposure may be slightly wrong nd i would rather be able to watch the film until i think i have the right density (i will probably be doing cyanotypes with it so if i mess up the density its useless)

[Glenn Thoreson]

Very nice! Simple things are often best, I always say somtimes.

[John Brady]

If thats your dad, how old are you? He looks like a young guy which would make you an even younger guy (pretty brilliant deduction eh?).

You have a bright future ahead, I wish I was doing cool projects like this one when I was younger. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
www.gladesgallery.com

[The Dread Pirate Robins]

Nice work!

How did you achieve a light seal between the two sliding boxes, if you don't mind revealing your secrets?

[Jake Middleton]

hey, in awser to your questions yeah my dad is 48 and im 18. I made the box light tight by makeing a joint like shown below (also its lined with felt)


this line is the outer box

----------------------------l <-- that is the edge of the outer box with a bit that hooks
l l down
note the > l-------------------------------
hook up
this is the inner slideing box that slides out

[Aender Brepsom]

Congratulations for that wonderful camera! Must be fun using it.

[sdwfx]

i wanted to use ortho because i can develop it under a red safelight and inspect the process - due to my shutter system that is worked by hand the exposure may be slightly wrong nd i would rather be able to watch the film until i think i have the right density (i will probably be doing cyanotypes with it so if i mess up the density its useless)

Goodness! we need more young people like you. Do you realize how hard it is nowadays to find an 18-yrs old who can reason the way you do above?