Now this is awesome! (617 camera plans)

Mainecoonmaniac · Aug 25, 2014

A DIY 6x17 camera.

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-6x17-Panoramic-Film-Camera/?ALLSTEPS

pdeeh · Aug 25, 2014

Did not our very own Steve Smith make a 6x12 to his own original design?

Regular Rod · Aug 25, 2014

Mainecoonmaniac said:
A DIY 6x17 camera.

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-6x17-Panoramic-Film-Camera/?ALLSTEPS

You can make a HolgAgon that focuses for not a lot of money and needs only simple hand tools. It's all here: http://freepdfhosting.com/b316cbe2ff.pdf

Just try a search on ipernity or flickr for HolgAgon pictures. Nominally 6x12 not 6x17 but a lot easier to make and it lets you focus...

RR

pdeeh · Aug 25, 2014

damn i had my post correct in the first place

cliveh · Aug 25, 2014

Mainecoonmaniac said:
A DIY 6x17 camera.

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-6x17-Panoramic-Film-Camera/?ALLSTEPS

That's not awesome, it's ugly.

gone · Aug 25, 2014

That's a LOT of work. I'd go w/ the HolgAgon. It looks OK to me. Wood on cameras puts me off. Actually, I like the images from those Holga 120 Pan cameras just as they come. Yes, there's light fall off, but I still like the images from them.

Dr Croubie · Aug 25, 2014

cliveh said:
That's not awesome, it's ugly.

Depends, do you want to take photos with it, or of it?

winger · Aug 25, 2014

That's pretty cool - maybe not gorgeous, but it works. And it IS prettier than the 8x10 pinhole I made from foam core and matboard. Gotta applaud people making a camera like this in the first place.

And momus, if you don't like wood on cameras, I'll guess you don't like large format?

Dan Fromm · Aug 25, 2014

winger said:
And momus, if you don't like wood on cameras, I'll guess you don't like large format?

Bethe, PMFJI. I have 1.5 (lotsa bits in addition to a complete camera) Cambo SC-2s. It contains no wood. The bellows (regular pleated, bag) are made of who-knows-what, certainly not wood.

That said, there are certainly many field and view cameras than contain a lot of wood.

mark · Aug 25, 2014

cliveh said:
That's not awesome, it's ugly.

A camera must be pretty to be worth using?

Jeff Kubach · Aug 26, 2014

I think it is cool!

Jeff

SMBooth · Aug 26, 2014

While the Holga is a good project, its not 1:3, only 1:2.
Depends what your after.

Regular Rod said:
You can make a HolgAgon that focuses for not a lot of money and needs only simple hand tools. It's all here: http://freepdfhosting.com/b316cbe2ff.pdf

Just try a search on ipernity or flickr for HolgAgon pictures. Nominally 6x12 not 6x17 but a lot easier to make and it lets you focus...

RR

Richard S. (rich815) · Aug 26, 2014

Regular Rod said:
You can make a HolgAgon that focuses for not a lot of money and needs only simple hand tools. It's all here: http://freepdfhosting.com/b316cbe2ff.pdf

Just try a search on ipernity or flickr for HolgAgon pictures. Nominally 6x12 not 6x17 but a lot easier to make and it lets you focus...

RR

But no sheet metal and wood!

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