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Richard K.
16-Nov-2004, 12:56
Sorry, just couldn't resist letting you all know...

A couple of pictures of it:

http://members.rogers.com/zoneiv/Phillips7x17.html

(Michael M. - got yours yet?)

Frank Petronio
16-Nov-2004, 13:15
Beautiful, congratulations. Now you've got to tell us how much it cost and what you're going to hang on the front. Then you'll have to show us pictures... Get busy!

Michael Mutmansky
16-Nov-2004, 13:40
That is the most butt-ugly camera I've ever seen. In other words, it's perfect. (No bordello red bellows for me!)

Mine hasn't come yet, but Dick tells me it will probably be ready next week. I don't understand how I am so far down the list when I've been pushing him for about 5 years to make them!

Now for the sad news. Dick has made the declaration that this batch of cameras (the 7x17's and the recently finished 11x14's) is the last of the ULF cameras he will ever make. He will continue makeing 8x10's and some 4x5's, but the large cameras are all over with for him. He's getting too old to wrestle with the large cameras, I suppose (he's about 70 years old).

Thankfully, he conceded to build one batch of 7x17's before it was all over.

---Michael

tim atherton
16-Nov-2004, 13:56
"That is the most butt-ugly camera I've ever seen. In other words, it's perfect. (No bordello red bellows for me!) "

I like to think of them as more Stealth Bomber as opposed to your grandmothers big and awkward Victorian walnut sideboard... :-)

Ben Calwell
16-Nov-2004, 13:59
I"m jealous. I'll have to go to work part-time at Home Depot to afford swell gear and keep up with you guys.

Ralph Barker
16-Nov-2004, 14:01
Congratulations, Richard. Looks dandy. Color me envious-green (available from Crayola on special order only).

Darin Cozine
16-Nov-2004, 14:29
Wow, that is like the Dearth Vader of cameras.
May the force be with you!

domenico Foschi
16-Nov-2004, 15:05
Richard, where do you live ?
When are you NOT going to be home?
Congratulations, ...anybody wants to buy a kidney?

Bill_1856
16-Nov-2004, 16:32
Where does the CF card go?

wfwhitaker
16-Nov-2004, 17:53
Those springs look familiar....

Andre Noble
16-Nov-2004, 18:12
Can that be shot in the vertical format? Nice

Henry Friedman
16-Nov-2004, 20:12
Is that a Hasselblad?

Edward (Halifax,NS)
17-Nov-2004, 07:58
Richard, I am not much for panorama myself but I am happy that you got the camera you wanted. It lookes like a beauty. BTW, my whole outfit cost about the same as one of your film holders. Some day I wil be able to buy the good stuff too. Happy shooting.

Jay M. Packer
17-Nov-2004, 10:55
Andre:

The Phillips 7x17 can indeed be used in a vertical orientation, without supplemental bracing. See


http://www.deathvalleyphoto.com/About%20Photographer.htm (http://www.deathvalleyphoto.com/About%20Photographer.htm)

and


http://www.deathvalleyphoto.com/bw/pages/race_track.htm (http://www.deathvalleyphoto.com/bw/pages/race_track.htm)

Congratulations, Richard. That’s one beautiful camera.

-- jp

Richard K.
17-Nov-2004, 19:17
Hey! What the....when did he get that camera?!? :>)
Did Phillips do earlier runs of the 7x17?

Michael Mutmansky
17-Nov-2004, 19:19
Richard,

Dick made 2 (yup, count em... 1... 2...) 7x17 cameras about a dozen years ago, about the same time he made six 12x20 cameras.

---Michael

Jim Ewins
17-Nov-2004, 23:20
When did anyone get the idea that one is old at 70??? My wood shop is still active. Jim