Show off your Large Format camera!

[Emil Schildt]

It's not the right make

What's the shutter, looks like maybe a Swift.

Ian

don't know yet - waiting for the camera to arrive

[alen]

I bet no ones seen one of these before

My machine:

[IanG]

BUT your tripod has a good name...

Unfortunately the tripod threads didn't match and while cleaning the mold off the bellows today the camera fell off !!!

I was left with the bellows in my hands the front standard Luckily the sepia toned (liver of sulphur spotted) hound was elsewhere and the camera landed on the sheep skin. What it did show however was that the damaged bellows highlighted by the seller was nothing more than coming apart at the seams/joints. it looked far uglier than the reality.

All the mold is gone from the outside, most from the inside, but I await the overnight drying before final internal restoration, however the bellows are already very solid, I still have to re-glue the internal overlap/seam which will consolidate them for another century.

Ian.

[Steven Tribe]

I picked up a restoration project yesterday. An anonymous 18x24 camera turned out to be a Gorlitzer Globus - Herbst & Firl. Same condition as Ian's above. Solid bellows, but unstuck joins. Mold spotting (interior) and velvet seals eaten away by something. And a lot of loose screws.

[Halide]

Here is my 4x5 Linhof Master Technika with a Rodenstock/Linhof certified 150mm and vintage Linhof lenshade. The horses in the background are a mustang family who are part of a 230+ herd of wild horses who spend their summers in a high mountain valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The herd is referred to as the Montgomery Pass Mustangs who spend their winters in Nevada. The BLM pretty much leaves them alone because the local mountain lions cull the herd (injured and dying horses). The horses usually bear their young there as soon as the snow melts and spend the summer eating the grasses and drinking water the flows out of the ground from natural springs in this area.

[Daniel Unkefer]

One of my Plaubel Makiflexes, with Plaubel 270mm f5.5 Auto-iris Schneider Tele-Arton, and Graflex 23 Roll FIlm Back. This is what I will be testing next up. The Stovepipe Viewfinder I cobbled up myself, from an old RB67 mag hood.

2016-02-07 12.33.50 by Nokton48, on Flickr

[Ron (Netherlands)]

Just finished restoration on this one. Took me quite some months to resurrect this one from the camera graveyard.
When I acquired this camera it had no lens, no shutter, no ground glass screen, no leather handle, no top parts and mirror of brilliant finder. But what it had was a layer of brownish dried molt/fungus all over. Also the bellows were in bad condition.
Most of the lacquer of the wood was gone and all metal parts were corroded. But since these camera's are made of very tough/hard wood and heavy plated metal parts (and are quite scarce), I thought it worthwhile to give it a complete restoration (which means taking the camera apart, thorough cleaning and giving the wood a new finish). The last missing part came Saturday with a parcel from Berlin: a Tessar in Compound originally made for ICA. My aim was to get the camera back in original condition as much as possible; this one was probably delivered with the f 6.3 Tessar which of course makes it hard to focus in darker days. I hope to use it sometime with paper negatives since this one is 10x15 for which there is no film anymore (it will share the plateholders that came with my Zeiss Favorit).

[RSalles]

Congrats Ron, new life for a beautiful piece of work,

Cheers,

Renato

[Ron (Netherlands)]

Congrats Ron, new life for a beautiful piece of work,

Thanks Renato,

I found some more details about the camera in different catalogues, as in this one from 1922:
There are at least two items that are not displayed correctly:
1. the camera shown is the one for 9x12 plates, not the 10x15 model;
2. the cameras' weight is quite a bit more than mentioned: my camera weighs 2360 gr. - i.e. with the smaller f 6.3 Tessar lens (probably they mentioned the weight of the 9x12 camera).

[Winger]

For someone who asked what this would look like, here's my Frankengraphic - a binocular lens mounted on a Speed Graphic. I'd guess that Bill H.'s looks a lot like mine. This isn't a great shot of mine, though.