Now this is awesome! (617 camera plans)

[Mainecoonmaniac]

A DIY 6x17 camera.


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

 

[pdeeh]

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

 

[Regular Rod]

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]

damn i had my post correct in the first place

 

[cliveh]

A DIY 6x17 camera.


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

That's not awesome, it's ugly.

 

[gone]

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]

That's not awesome, it's ugly.

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

 

[winger]

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]

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]

That's not awesome, it's ugly.

A camera must be pretty to be worth using?

 

[Jeff Kubach]

I think it is cool!

Jeff

 

[SMBooth]

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

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)]

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!