Found this on Pinterest
I don't know how to copy to here, so this is owner's website from 11 years ago
http://andrewjohnmilne.com/project/a...2/#prettyPhoto
I know I can do that!
Found this on Pinterest
I don't know how to copy to here, so this is owner's website from 11 years ago
http://andrewjohnmilne.com/project/a...2/#prettyPhoto
I know I can do that!
Tin Can
I have access to a 2500mm Boyer lens, the bloke wants to sell it but no matter how I word things the post gets knocked back on this forum.
That said I thought maybe I should just buy it myself as it might be good for such a camera obscura. But I would make it from a small (6x4' I guess) pan trailer and drive it around the countryside looking for something to point it at.
Something I've meant to do for years, long before this lens poppped up, and realistically a pinhole would do almost as well.
Here's a pic of it from that link.
Rob Gray — Nature Photographer Extraordinaire
www.robgray.com
Just buy it, I think you know what to do with it
I am definitely not a Civil War reenactor but did read up today, Civil War Howitzers and it struck me how they took them apart and moved them with mules could be applied to my needs, sorta
I have a camera cart for E-bicycle, but...it's a high theft toy that cannot haul what I want
I also volunteer as Docent close to home at a 1818 Historical Village and told them Friday I want to use old cameras at our events. I have already done this twice
My new idea is a long handle big wheel cart this old man could slide out of my 8' pickup bed and get it back in myself or use a winch. I have 2
Leverage
Still doodling
Tin Can
This is the lens
It's EIGHT INCHES across
Projects a 1m circle I'm told, 2500mm focal length so presumably that's at approx 2.5m back from the lens, I doubt that it's a tele.
Mounted in a box the size of a trailer it might work, then drive around the district looking for something I can point it at. Maybe using 30x30" paper as a neg.
I'm only dreaming, I don't even have a darkroom these days and not sure I want one again anyway. But it would be soooo cool.
Last edited by GRAYnomad; 21-Mar-2021 at 19:49.
Rob Gray — Nature Photographer Extraordinaire
www.robgray.com
Wet Plate?
I now use a Jena 900mm f 9 on my Deardorff 11X14 Studio camera
I have posted about often
Tin Can
Rob Gray — Nature Photographer Extraordinaire
www.robgray.com
It seems I was bang on.
EB adds that the 2500/12.5 Apo Saphir “ was built for the military. It was used, among other purposes, for filming nuclear tests (whence the front cover) and one is (was ?) used for wide field photography at the Meudon astronomical observatory. This should give those acquainted with astronomers’ demands for quality an idea of how well corrected the lenses are.”
Rob Gray — Nature Photographer Extraordinaire
www.robgray.com
So if wet plate: Coat and process while you are actually inside the camera body?
That could be made to work if the camera-built-into-trailer concept is used.
Back into scenic overlooks and shoot at fixed infinity. Panoramic formats might be easier to physically handle the glass plate; smaller yet still "big".
Drew Bedo
www.quietlightphoto.com
http://www.artsyhome.com/author/drew-bedo
There are only three types of mounting flanges; too big, too small and wrong thread!
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