This link is from another thread here. Take a look at the ccamera and lens. I have read that this is how some street photographers worked making tintypes during the 1870s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-5xaVfhR8
This link is from another thread here. Take a look at the ccamera and lens. I have read that this is how some street photographers worked making tintypes during the 1870s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-5xaVfhR8
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Last year, here in Brazil, I made a similar camera, more towards the portuguese tradition of these lab cameras, and along with a fellow photographer, I travelled the state of São Paulo taking some 5x7" images of people with paper bags over their heads. This is a link to my blog, picking the posts related to this activity:
http://refotografia.wordpress.com/tag/rxdcc/
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I had my picture taken by a Mexican street photog using a similar device. He had an old press camera Bondo-grafted onto the front of a box with something like a changing bag for arm entry on the back. He shot on paper, developed in the box, rinsed the paper neg in a bucket, mounted it in a frame in front of the camera, pulled the lens out to fixed stops for 1:1, and copied it on paper, also run through the same process. Total time was about five minutes, and I received a barely-fixed, barely-washed print in a cardboard folder.
what fun!
the barely washed part scares me, but you can always go home and do a final wash
this guy is doing something similar in india
but he contact prints the negative in camera instead of photographing the negative
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ighlight=india
great to see there are still people working like this ...
I saw a similar setup in the museum of photography in Tallinn (who is visiting Tallinn make sure to visit that museum!), those are sure interesting setups.
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