Help IDing a 4x5 camera.

[BrianG]

I won what appears to be a rather modern wooden 4x5 camera at auction recently, and it turns out it's missing some parts. There are no identifying marks, but wouldn't you know, doing an image search for "wooden 4x5 camera" yields a stock photo of what is apparently the exact model of camera, but there is no accompanying information identifying it :

I've tried to contact the photographer via dreamstime.com, but apparently their individual bio pages are all broken, so I was hoping someone here might recognize it. I was thinking at first that it might be home made, but this photographer is located in Canada, and the auction I got it from was in Virginia, so apparently more than one of these were made. The pieces that are there all have exactly the same hardware...

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Is that the Bender kit camera?

 

[campy51]

It looks homemade.

 

[Paul Howell]

It's not a bender, there were a few other camera kits as well. What is missing from yours?

 

[BrianG]

Is that the Bender kit camera?

Looks pretty similar in build, but the layout is somewhat different.

The one I'm trying to ID has two piece side standards and a wooden folding rail at the bottom.

 

[BrianG]

It's not a bender, there were a few other camera kits as well. What is missing from yours?

Bottom Slider/Rail. I was hoping to find the matched parts, but if it's not possible, I can probably fabricate something similar.

I got the whole thing with a Rodenstock Ysarex mounted on it for 28 bucks, so I figured it's a pretty cheap project, and I can always play with the lens if I never get around to fixing the camera..

 

[reddesert]

It's a camera from a previous kit, the Porta Vu, perhaps predating Bender

https://www.afterness.com/photo/porta_vu_camera.html

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...-lenses-7-lisco-regal-ii-film-holders.198614/

 

[grahamp]

That two-part standard looks like an interesting approach to separating rise and tilt. Learn something new every day.