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[Bobby Ironsights]

Quality is the ticket...if one is seriously planning projects with this format, the highest quality equipment is the only way to go.

Horse Pucka!!!

Run what you brung, and a camera is only, in essence, a light tight box.

The OP may have more time than money, and if that is the case I totally support his endeavor. You'd really be surprised what a careful and patient man can do with fairly simple tools.

Being from other interests I can cheerfully say that I know of dedicated amateurs who grind their own lenses and mirrors for telescopes accurate to microns, for backyard astronomy, over periods of many weeks.

View cameras are comparatively simple compared to the things amateurs in other hobbies, like motorsports, electronics, sailing, etc.. regularly build and trust their lives to.

rant...rant....etc..etc..rant, rant rant...GRRR!

 

[Falkenberg]

Thanks for the support. I am slowly working my way towards a camera design that I think will work. Read about my ULF progress in the blog section.

 

[Rob Vinnedge]

Thanks for the support. I am slowly working my way towards a camera design that I think will work. Read about my ULF progress in the blog section.

Falkenberg,

I read your blog entry on your camera design project and and couldn't help but note your comment about standards in ULF. I have been quite concerned about the absence of standards as they apply to ULF film holders (see my thread in FEEDBACK and DISCUSSION on film holder standards), and by extension, ULF camera backs. More and more equipment choices have become available lately, as interest in ULF grows. New companies are sprouting, and people are now making their own, as you have decided to do. I personally would like to see some standards set so that we don't have to keep reinventing the wheel, constantly spending needlessly in order to adapt. If we all had cameras that used the same sized holders in the various formats, we wouldn't have to worry about rib lock alignment, T depth, or O.D. measurements, and we wouldn't have to send our camera backs out for re-machining. The resulting interchangeability of accessories would greatly reduce the cost of ULF, which is high enough already.

Sandy King has been generous enough to share his film holder specs with us. I would really like to see the community embrace them as the definitive standard.

 

[Falkenberg]

Do You have a link to the specs proposed by Sandy King ?

 

[Rob Vinnedge]

Here it is:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[barryjyoung]

Here it is:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Thanks Rob, and Thanks Sandy King. I am a subsriber to these standards. The film holders I am currently making for sale will conform to these standards.