i was gifted a 36inches f6.3 aerial lens by a friend. It was a huge lens weighing 8kg. The story was that a few years ago, my friend came across a store and saw the owner collected a few vintage cameras and also this lens and decided to buy it over.
I decided to build a simple cardboard 16x20 ULF camera for it. Staying in an apartment,I really do not have the space to keep a 16x20 camera permanently so I thought a cardboard camera will not cost me too much money and time to build. No woodworking is involved just a lot of tape and glue In any event, I can discard the cheap cardboard body and keep the lens.
I bypass the film holder and go for a hyraid Afghan box camera approach where the paper negative is loaded inside the camera and use an outside darkslide to cover out the ground glass before loading the paper.
I made 2 videos on this project
Lens : https://youtu.be/s09j9_Sh62M
Camera : https://youtu.be/N5QpZmt-8eo
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