Show off your Large Format camera!

[MHamiltonVisuals]

Do you like your Wehman? I was looking at getting one for pretty cheap but not sure on it.

[Tin Can]

Like!

Obviously it works!

Finished building first LF camera a couple weeks ago (documented on DIY forum). Carbon fiber and 3D printed plastic. Now trying to figure out how to use it:


The first photograph turned out okay—no obvious light leaks, and only a few glitches from my sloppy developing:

Fujinon 135mm f5.6 / Ilford FP4+ / 1/125 @ f5.6

[pepeguitarra]

Here is the 5x7 Korona Field Camera 1908:

5x7 Korona Field Camera 1908 by Palenquero Photography, on Flickr

[Daniel Casper Lohenstein]

Hello,

here is some steam punk with a camera named "The Brand 17".

There are a few goals of this study:

1. the camera has to be more lightweight

2. the camera has to be more compact

3. the camera has to take Linhof lensboards

4. the camera has to offer an international 4x5 back

5. the bellows has to be renewed

6. the bellows has to be thinner to take at least 125mm lenses

In the beginning "The Brand 17" has a bellows draw of 17 inches. This is really great for macro shots. Just look at the telescopic focusing rails. There are two of them. This increases stability! This camera is a very good macro camera. I use it in our local botanical garden.

The camera is made with aluminium. This gives a rather lightweight body. The body with its Sinar back, without the original handle at the side of the rear standard, weights actually 2.1kg! This isn't much for a view camera.

I took the handle off because I wanted to take the camera with me in the rucksack.

To increase bellows draw there is a telescopic rail system to define the initial magnificion ratio or the flange to film distance, while the knobs backwards do the fine focusing.

The camera has a rotating back. Originally this included a simple 4x5 holder of the pre-Graflok era. I sawed it off ... I found an old and lonely Sinar back that I flattened by cutting off the Sinar specific mounting part that fits into the camera. What remained was the Graflok layer. This was quite radical. Bleeding heart. But it reduced the draw by a few centimeter. Then I drilled some threaded holes and mounted the back on the rear standards with screws.

The original bellows was rather stiff. I took it off and built a new bellows with a steady Cordura nylon on the outside and black and matte cotton cloth on the inside. The bellows gives a draw from 125mm to ~ 370mm, so the macro capability is slightly reduced. A compromise, dued to the thickness of the material. I think I will order a thinner bellows from China. Then I will be able to mount 90mm lenses and extend up to the full 17 inches ... A wideangle bellows does not make sense since you can't change bellows quickly. But the standards offer a lot of space to invent such a mechanism ...

With a little sealing the camera takes Linhof boards. It does not look very professional, quite quick and dirty, but it works.

Tschau zäme

[Jim Noel]

Do you like your Wehman? I was looking at getting one for pretty cheap but not sure on it.

I love mine, although it took a few outings to become totally familiar with it's movements.

[pepeguitarra]

Gibellini Bellatrix
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Charles, that is a beautiful camera!!!

[DrTang]

newly built 4x5 - fixed focus based on a Polaroid Big Shot and a lot of tape

https://flic.kr/p/2eqnh1D

[Tin Can]

You have a Mac Van?

I regret not buying one complete with stand and 5X7 back.

newly built 4x5 - fixed focus based on a Polaroid Big Shot and a lot of tape

https://flic.kr/p/2eqnh1D

[Alan7140]

I always wanted a Thornton Pickard Imperial ½ plate camera.

I finally found one (circa 1908), brought it back to being nice and bright and serviceable again, adapted it to an Arca plate mount for my Gitzo Tripod And RRS ball-head (without altering the camera itself in any way), and am now having fun with it such as I haven't had since the digital nonsense forced my Toyo Field 45A from my bag 15 years ago.





...and it works a treat (using Ilford MG IV for a paper neg)

[Michael Roberts]

That’s fantastic, Alan. Congrats!

What’s up with the gears on front—a curtain shutter?