My kinda camera builder

**John_4185** · 1-Dec-2005, 10:40

jnocook.net/cameras/diverse.htm

I was drawn there while researching the Metrogon 6" on 8x10. I built a camera similar to his.

**Oren Grad** · 1-Dec-2005, 11:08

Seriously deranged, but cool precisely because. There was something about this that looked vaguely familiar, and browsing through the site reminded me that I saw his 1990 exhibit at the List Center at MIT:

jnocook.net/recycled/index.htm

**Brian Vuillemenot** · 1-Dec-2005, 11:17

I may have to adapt his cockroachicidal technology to zap mosquitoes and other vermin that get inside my Wisner.

**Robert McClure** · 1-Dec-2005, 11:21

Hello jj,

Your Mr. Cook certainly seems fascinating, quirky, and funny too. Not surprised that you might be drawn to a person like that. Reminds me of (what I know of) you - i.e., always ready with a quirky and often acerbic remark.

In a world of (often - not always) straight-laced, rather "bookish," camera/lens/optics/hard data type heads, you have seemed to be quite refreshing at times.

The soup can always use a touch of spice, eh?

**John_4185** · 1-Dec-2005, 19:31

jnocook.net/recycled/bin/rrc-2.jpg

This one is shocking! It has a literary illusion. That looks like the bike that Robert Pirsig rode on his trip with his son and written as Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I wonder if Cook knows that. Ah, I always wonder. No big deal.

BTW, I mounted a pair of matched 240mm lenses for stereo rather like his - no septum. Ended up making a mask of it. That's what I get for cleaning the shop near Halloween.

**kreig** · 2-Dec-2005, 23:40

Mr Cook is a very interesting guy if you ever have a chance to talk with. His perspective is indeed very "illuminating"

I purchased a fine rebuildable 14x17 Rochester View from him several years ago.