Show us your home made camera...

[MAubrey]

11x14 in process, but I'm getting there. The bellows is in process. I'm hoping for about a meter of extension. As soon as I have a film holder to work with, I'll be building a back around it.

[JimNix]

Finally got around to starting the design for my laser cut large format wet plate camera.

[DirkFletcher]

just rolled off the assembly line...



Super lightweight, has some movements from the 2x3 Century Graphic standard and a composite rear standard from Walker Cameras TiTAN pinhole body made for Ilford.

Build notes are here, more pics are on flickr here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskLqLGes

thanks for looking!
Dirk

[Tin Can]

just rolled off the assembly line...



Super lightweight, has some movements from the 2x3 Century Graphic standard and a composite rear standard from Walker Cameras TiTAN pinhole body made for Ilford.

Build notes are here, more pics are on flickr here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskLqLGes

thanks for looking!
Dirk

Very nice. Really!

A 4 barrel Chicago camera!

[Jim Fitzgerald]

Some updated images of the 8x10 and 8x20 out in the field.

[IanG]

just rolled off the assembly line...



Super lightweight, has some movements from the 2x3 Century Graphic standard and a composite rear standard from Walker Cameras TiTAN pinhole body made for Ilford.

Build notes are here, more pics are on flickr here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskLqLGes

thanks for looking!
Dirk

The finishing touch is to fill the grooves of the thumb wheels with black paint to match the centre of the focus track



Ian

[DirkFletcher]

Hey Ian,
That's funny as night I was looking at how dirty the groves were in the pics and was wishing I caught that before I photographed the camera. Your painted rail trick turned out nice!
Dirk

[IanG]

Hey Ian,
That's funny as night I was looking at how dirty the groves were in the pics and was wishing I caught that before I photographed the camera. Your painted rail trick turned out nice!
Dirk

I'd tried filing the centre of my rail exposing the brass which looked ugly, this was to try putting a Super Graphic front standard on the rails to increase the range of movements. So painted it black to hide it (Dirk & I discussed this in PMs).

I think it makes your camera look better for it Dirk, another great conversion.

Ian

[Graham Patterson]

The sheer quality of the construction of these cameras is intimidating! However, in the tradition of 'a camera is just a light-tight box with film and a lens', here's my 8x10 monorail. I am not sure if I will want to do much in this format, but I can dip my toe in the water without breaking the bank.




More information at http://grahamp.dotinthelandscape.org/8x10.html

[Fr. Mark]

Looks nice to me!