"What about them" I can hear you asking, well... I'm wondering if anyone has any they're wanting to sell off? I'm just looking for a trashy one for a project I'm hoping to have a play with this year. So, if you've got half a dozen, but your aching back will only carry five on the trail, maybe it's time to let one go 
In case you're wondering, the project revolves around a beautiful old lens I happened across maybe ten years ago. It's a 400mm Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, a big boy with a 4" diameter. I was just in the middle of listing it on ebay (having a big clean out at the moment) and thought I'd have another look through it, since it had been a few years. I stuck it in the window and drew the curtains around it, got a lovely image on a piece of 11/14 mat board I held up... that got me thinking... it was only two days ago I was chatting to Dad about paper negatives and how I had wanted to play around with them... hmmm...
So anyway, I'm going to knock up a real rough 'n' ready camera to play with, just two semi-fixed lens & film standards with a black vinyl tube between the two. The lens has a sliding focus of about 3" within its housing, so the standards may only need to have rough focus guides (ie, the old one person, a few people, a mountain kind of thing) to show where to clamp or screw them down. Anyway, like I said, it's just a project that's been kicking around in my brain for a while and I'm finally inspired to do something with it... Who knows, if I can get decent coverage at 11x14 (which my little window test suggestsI very well might) I might have to work out how to knock up 11x14 slides of my own.
In case you're wondering, the project revolves around a beautiful old lens I happened across maybe ten years ago. It's a 400mm Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, a big boy with a 4" diameter. I was just in the middle of listing it on ebay (having a big clean out at the moment) and thought I'd have another look through it, since it had been a few years. I stuck it in the window and drew the curtains around it, got a lovely image on a piece of 11/14 mat board I held up... that got me thinking... it was only two days ago I was chatting to Dad about paper negatives and how I had wanted to play around with them... hmmm...
So anyway, I'm going to knock up a real rough 'n' ready camera to play with, just two semi-fixed lens & film standards with a black vinyl tube between the two. The lens has a sliding focus of about 3" within its housing, so the standards may only need to have rough focus guides (ie, the old one person, a few people, a mountain kind of thing) to show where to clamp or screw them down. Anyway, like I said, it's just a project that's been kicking around in my brain for a while and I'm finally inspired to do something with it... Who knows, if I can get decent coverage at 11x14 (which my little window test suggestsI very well might) I might have to work out how to knock up 11x14 slides of my own.
