LF Camera Making Book

thefizz

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Can anyone recommend a good DIY book on building large format cameras?

Peter
 

Laurent

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Jon Grepstad's one is fine, it made me able to build a monorail on my own...
 

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There are a couple of good sites with info, depends a bit of what you want: mono-rail or field, metal or wood.

I am in the pocess of getting the parts and tools together for a wooden field, my Shen Hao HZX45-IIA as a starting point.
Still have not decided jet on the final shape, it might become a Chamonix/Shen Hao PTB54 aswell.
If I can get enough wood together here in Brazil it will be both, each in a diferent kind of tropical hard-wood.

Peter
 

Jerevan

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User barryjyoung here on APUG has made a book about building LF Cameras. I was on the verge of trying out to make a camera, but I am short on both time and money but send him a pm, he's a friendly guy.
 
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