DIY TLR Camera

seabee1999

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Good day all, a few months back it got a pretty beat up Rolleicord camera that simply cannot be salvaged nor repaired. I decided to remove a few things from the body for a project pano camera I'm drafting up in CAD. After removing what I wanted to, pretty much all I have left is the Rollei body, WLF, mirror and lens set (w/ shutter). Well, I did a quick Google search for DIY TLR cameras and found Recesky and Gakkenflex 35mm cameras. It got me thinking a bit about trying to fit the Rollei lens set to that camera. I was wondering if anyone out that may have tried fitting actual lenses to one of these cameras or made a modification to do so. Either way, I'll have a lens set that I don't know quite what to do with. I'd like to be creative with this and have a little fun.

R/
Dave
 

jimmelcher

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I never heard of those (Recesky, Gakkenflex).

Did you ever finish that project?
 

Donald Qualls

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I've got a Recesky that I finished. The film advance indicator is a little iffy (probably a minor reassembly) but it works well enough I bought two or three more of the kits, thinking I might at some point be able to engineer a 3D printed frame counter and/or advance stop and selectable B shutter setting to make it easier to use (not to mention trying to install a finer actual ground glass instead of the textured plastic focusing screen).

I have not, however, finished the first film roll, so I can't comment on the image quality -- should be pretty Holga-esque, with a plastic meniscus and fairly haphazard focus synchronization between taking and viewing lens.
 
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