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

Tyndall Bruce

A
Tyndall Bruce

  • 0
  • 0
  • 22
TEXTURES

A
TEXTURES

  • 4
  • 0
  • 47
Small Craft Club

A
Small Craft Club

  • 2
  • 0
  • 46
RED FILTER

A
RED FILTER

  • 1
  • 0
  • 37
The Small Craft Club

A
The Small Craft Club

  • 3
  • 0
  • 43

Recent Classifieds

Forum statistics

Threads
198,902
Messages
2,782,775
Members
99,742
Latest member
stephenswood
Recent bookmarks
2

noyart

Member
Joined
Aug 12, 2013
Messages
44
Format
35mm
Hello! New to the forums :smile:
I'm been thinking about making my own camera, but wondering, when using a lens... is there a pinehole behind the shutter unit? or how do it even look inside your camera?
Also when taking large photograph, what do you use for film?
 

Steve Smith

Member
Joined
May 3, 2006
Messages
9,109
Location
Ryde, Isle o
Format
Medium Format
when taking large photograph, what do you use for film?

Large film!

Most of the DIY cameras being discussed here are the folding field camera type (unless I'm mistaken). Most commonly, these use 5" x 4" or 10" x 8" sheets of film.

This type of camera is also normally used with a lens with integral shutter but they can also be used with a pin hole (no lens) or barrel lenses without shutters where some ingenuity is required to control the light.


EDIT: Actually, I assumed incorrectly. There is a good mix of all sorts of formats in this thread.

For some ideas, have a look through the 'workshop' section here: http://www.raymentkirbycameras.co.uk/


Steve.
 
Last edited by a moderator:

Steve Smith

Member
Joined
May 3, 2006
Messages
9,109
Location
Ryde, Isle o
Format
Medium Format
Whilst it isn't finished, I thought I would post a picture of my current 5x4 camera build. Today it stopped looking like a pile of wood and brass and started looking like a camera. Hopefully not long now until I can start using it. I think I need to do something with the bellows though.

Camera-2013.jpg


Steve.
 

Ezzie

Member
Joined
Feb 22, 2010
Messages
429
Location
Sande i Vest
Format
Multi Format
Very nice Steve

This is probably cheating, as it isn't my design. It is a kit, some of you may have seen discussed here and there. The DUO by Kevin Kadooka. I assembled mine last weekend, painted even. This is how it turned out:


My Duo x 7 by Eirik0304, on Flickr
 

frank

Member
Joined
Dec 6, 2002
Messages
4,359
Location
Canada
Format
Multi Format
Here is my plywood sliding box in a box camera. There is a salvaged 4x5 graflok back on the ... back. There is a 90mm Angulon lens on the front. It is painted black now. I've developed a sheet of film, and still need to track down a light leak, probably the worn felt on the graflok back.

2a913aa729d999d0825e4643782f87c4.jpg
 

StoneNYC

Member
Joined
Aug 5, 2012
Messages
8,345
Location
Antarctica
Format
8x10 Format
That's cool Stone. Is it light tight enough?

Well, the initial design that I was going for would certainly have been like tight, with a double wall, however unfortunately this is part of the MSA which was due on the first, and without discussing it in detail, I was unable to access APUG until the first, and only found out that I would even be able to do that on the day before, so I build this in a rush and only had so many Legos to play with, and also I had the little one in the background and so as I said someone else I think I couldn't exactly take her pink Legos because that would not go over so well so I had to work with the materials at hand, so it became a fixed Focus box camera rather than a focusable Lego camera, and also meant that it would only have a singlewall rather than a double, which allows for cracks within the Lego pieces for like to get through. I was certainly aware that this is going to happen at the time, and just figured it was for fun and so I just took two send pictures the first of which was very not like tight and had a lot of streaking, and the second wasn't awful, but unfortunately I couldn't go back enough with the camera sitting on the table and didn't have enough time or Legos to build it farther from the focal point of the Polaroid film I was using, so I knew that the image was going to be a little bit blurry, but it was all for fun so I did it anyway here's the image, I stopped down as much as I could and still have a one second exposure which was the longest that I could get the little one to sit still for as well as the person aiming the camera wouldn't be able to do a bulb exposure properly. If I could have stopped it down to say f/45 I certainly would've had a much clearer image but just didn't have the time for that.

The first light leak exposure

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1393781653.675929.jpg

The second less lightly exposure

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1393781687.845307.jpg
 

Truzi

Member
Joined
Mar 18, 2012
Messages
2,651
Format
Multi Format
Does the kid get her legos back, or is the camera yours now? :smile: Cool project.
 

mhcfires

Member
Joined
May 18, 2008
Messages
593
Location
El Cajon, CA
Format
Multi Format
My kid left his legos here when he moved out. I gave them to my next door neighbor for his grand children. This was about 10 years ago. My kid is 39, I don't think he will be missing them.:D

m
 

Ezzie

Member
Joined
Feb 22, 2010
Messages
429
Location
Sande i Vest
Format
Multi Format
A 6x24 anamorphic pinhole camera, made out of a casket for a bottle of Tommasi rispaso red wine. A friend of mine used the case to send a load of film to me a few weeks back. The opening in the front covered with cardboard and a picture of a pinhole on it. He meant it as a joke, but I took it seriously :wink:

Here it is:


6x24 Pinhole by Eirik0304, on Flickr

A brief description of the not too complicated build: http://on-your-kitchen-worktop.blogspot.no/2014/02/6x24-pinhole-camera.html

And some test shots


Frozen river by Eirik0304, on Flickr


Bustokkelva #1 by Eirik0304, on Flickr


Søndre Bjørkhaugen #3 by Eirik0304, on Flickr
 

Steve Smith

Member
Joined
May 3, 2006
Messages
9,109
Location
Ryde, Isle o
Format
Medium Format
Aaaaggghhh!!! Americans and Lego.

It's Lego, not Legos!!!

The Lego website even has a whole page pointing this out.

Looks good though!


Streve.
 

Truzi

Member
Joined
Mar 18, 2012
Messages
2,651
Format
Multi Format
In our defense, we're using it as a noun, not company name (and yes, it is still incorrect).
 

himself

Member
Joined
Apr 8, 2011
Messages
513
Format
Multi Format
finally got around to making an 8x10
the frond is made from the FP shutter of a 3x4 speed graphic and it has a sprung rotating back

all in it weighs about 3.5kg, but almost half of that is the lens, so it's pretty transportable.

1 small.jpg
2.jpg
3.jpg

the only thing left to do is make the film holders.
 

himself

Member
Joined
Apr 8, 2011
Messages
513
Format
Multi Format
I like how the knobs for the standards appear to be wooden? Nice touch.

yeah, just a simple piece of pine with threaded bar screwed and glued in.
it was easier and quicker to just make them with wood that was lying around than buy some, and then fit everything around them
 

Steve Smith

Member
Joined
May 3, 2006
Messages
9,109
Location
Ryde, Isle o
Format
Medium Format
It's still not quite finished, but today, my 5x4 folding field camera exposed its first two sheets of film.

5x4-3.JPG 5x4-0001s.jpg 5x4-0002s.jpg

After a couple of false starts when I didn't like what I was building and I started again, this has been in progress for a couple of years. It still needs a few things before I can consider it finished.


Steve.
 

Ezzie

Member
Joined
Feb 22, 2010
Messages
429
Location
Sande i Vest
Format
Multi Format
Congrats Steve. Exceptionally well done!
 

Steve Smith

Member
Joined
May 3, 2006
Messages
9,109
Location
Ryde, Isle o
Format
Medium Format
Thanks. I'm pleased with it.

I was also pleasantly surprised when I processed the film and actually had images without any evidence of light leaks. When I made my 6x12 camera, the first two films came out completely black!


Steve.
 
Photrio.com contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.
To read our full affiliate disclosure statement please click Here.

PHOTRIO PARTNERS EQUALLY FUNDING OUR COMMUNITY:



Ilford ADOX Freestyle Photographic Stearman Press Weldon Color Lab Blue Moon Camera & Machine
Top Bottom