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Pix of your home-built cams, mods and creations here please (part 2)


Marvelous idea! Should also work good for wet plates.
 
Just finished a 4x5 wide camera using a MC 65mm f/5.6 Super Angulon in the Schneider helical. The camera has a Graflok back and thank goodness for a fellow Photo member he found me the super hard to find Cambo folding focusing hood.

(PS) my outdated Velvia test shots needed WAYYYYYY more exposure. I gave it an extra 2/3 of a stop and prob could have used at least that much more!!

 
DIY Graflok back for my Plaubel Peco Jr.

Reverse engineered from a Cambo 4x5 -> 6x9 rear standard adapter plate.

SLS 3D printed in Nylon 12 GF. Mounted onto a laser cut sheet of 1.5mm 4130 Chromoly.

Spring steel & ground glass taken from original Cambo plate. Thread-to-expand M3 inserts & M3x6mm bolts.


 
Verito 7" f/4 Diffused Focus lens re-mounted into Prontor Professional #3 Shutter. Seen here mounted onto a Plaubel Peco Jr 96mm X 95mm lens board.

 
Recently finished a personal 4x5 point and shoot with a Linhof stamped 65mm f/5.6. Really excited and looking forward to shooting with this one!
 
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This looks really gorgeous! Look forward to your photos.

P.S. I guess the SA 65mm f5.6 version has more coverage than f8. My f8 has some corner vignetting even stopped down to f/22.
 
Lens board holder insert for the Beast. Just need to make sure I haven't missed any more pinholes in the bellows, load it up on the pallet jack and I'll be able to use her.
 
I grew tired of using the sheet film holders on my Ensign Popular, so I fitted a Adapt a roll 620, unfortunately I couldn't stop it from scratching the film and overlapping negatives. I just picked up a new Shen Hao sh612, I'll see how that goes. I like 6/12 aspect ratio.
 
For a while now, I am using a Fuji GW690 and GSW690, 6x9 format camera's, it occurred to me that panorama's would be nice, as well as some flexibility wrt lenses. So,I built this over the christmas holidays:

It is a wooden (dovetailed mahogany) box with a 3d printed lid with a lens mount.
And a Horseman filmback

Or a groundglass


First proper field tests in Austria, and it works really well, the weather wasn't great, so that was an extra complication on an already elaborate workflow (especially on deep snow with snowshoes on). Missed quite a few shots where I forgot to take the darkslide out, and had to dry off everything every single time after going out for a walk.
But it works I use it with two lenses, a Schneider Kreuznach 58mm XL and Apo Sironar 150mm, I bought a few 6x9 backs, but also the (very expensive) Horseman 6x12 back.


The viewfinder (works really well, but needs two lens kits for mobile phones that you need to buy, at about 25EUR each)
Masks for 58mm and 150mm (in both 6x9 and 6x12)
 
Neat. What is the focusing helical?

Not to criticize. I understand the joy of tinkering, also that 4x5 Crown Graphics are probably scarce and expensive in the NL. That said, a 4x5 Crown will work with your lenses, and many more.
 
Those are the M65 focusing helicoids from AliExpress, and they are pretty good, there's a little bit of wobble but not much, they work smooth and the focusing through is OK, maybe a bit long, especially on the 25-55 which I use for the 150mm (the 58 has 17-31).
There's certainly the joy of tinkering, but also, a lot more understanding about optics now (currently building a reflex viewer). Initially, the idea was to also be able to use this without a tripod, so zone focused. And I have actually done that, no groundglass needed. Pretty light and compact also, or, well, it's comparative, innit?


I also liked the idea of easy to find Graflok accessories.

4x5 Crowns are difficult to come by overhere, you do find Horsemans now again, but that's 900 euro's easily. The idea was to make this cost effective (didn't manage that, I recently did the math, and it's north of 2k). So, well, maybe I should have sprung for a Linhof Technorama (also easier to find over here, naturally), but then, each and every extra lens is a lot of money, and I recently bought a Nikkor W 135mm for 50 euros.

Will say, rise/fall/shift is pretty helpful sometimes, so I am thinking of designing a camera which can do that. But ultimately, I found that a lot of the more compact camera's had tradeoffs I did not like (Horseman Convertible, Alpa, Linhof Technorama, Cambo Wide, Silvestri), so that is the main reason for designing my own. Only later did I came across Alvandi, which would make sense from a cost/functionality standpoint, but they are in Iran, so that's also a complication (certainly now).
 
Shift and or rise/fall is necessary.
I've been thinking about altering a 4x5 to nikon (just as an example) stitching adapter to achieve this. But the prices have gotten ridiculous.
 
I had a bit of time this afternoon, so I converted an old full plate camera to take Linhof lens board, fitted a 4x5 back and tripod mount.
Nice and light at 2.3kgs and I can use a 90mm lens without a recessed lens board.