Recent content by odonata

Ha! Are you always this funny? :getlost: I’d love to see some photos it takes if it turns out to be as promising as it looks. The proof is always in the final results.

If you decide to pretty it up, all it needs is a couple of camera strap holders on one end and you've got a good copy of a Horseman 842 Convertible there. If you equate simplistic or functional with pretty, then that camera was gorgeous. Otherwise, not the sexiest camera ever produced...

That's a great looking boat. The photograph is excellent too. After programming computers all day, working on building a camera or building a boat is a nice change of pace. I also use the boat build as an excuse to break out the B&W cameras and take some progress photos. This picture was taken...

Thanks! The sailboat is my project to keep me entertained when I'm not cooped up in my apartment. A friend of mine cleared out some space in his barn for me to build a boat. You can see his Morris Frances 26 in the background. The boat I'm building is a stretched Welsford Walkabout. Normally...

When the pandemic hit last year, I was looking for some interesting projects to keep me busy as I spent my evenings isolated in my apartment. I had always admired some of the unique camera builds that people were building in these forums so I decided to take a shot at doing that. I found an old...