I finally had enough time to complete a project that I have been thinking about for nearly a year now :-)
I had a Nikkor SW 65mm lens sitting around with no camera to put it on.
I have a couple of Toyo 4x5 backs (rotating and non-rotating)
I found a helical focus mount on e-bay (from the far east).
All was left was to make a box to tie all the pieces together.
Some more photos of the camera along the way:
fit checking the back
machining the inside cavity
machining the front side and assembling the pieces together for the first time
She's a beaut!
I want one!!!
Why is the body so wide? I think I'd try to make it just the tiniest bit bigger than the back.
Rather than make an elaborate fixture, I chose to use the 4 holes in the corners of the camera body as tooling/fixturing holes. I will also use these same corner hole to rigidly mount the camera on my telescope mount for tracked long exposure shots of the winter milky way in the next few months (weather permitting)
-Leon
Originally Posted by Jack Dahlgren
wow... really neat.
if you don't mind, could you post the ebay link on the helical mount? thankx.
Very nice. I am jealous of your means...I wish I had a CNC mill to make cameras with.
I also would like to know what focusing mount you used. For my own P&S camera (which is made out of a cigar box), I took apart a cheap 35mm lens and used the mechanism out of that. I can focus down to 5 feet.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
--A=B by Petkovšek et. al.
I'm jealous too, but I always feel sorry for the metal when I see a big block like that milled down to something small like this.
Awesome!! Amazing CNC rig
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