Lesson 71: How I Built An 11x14 View Camera
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2024
- UPDATE: I have just published a book, "Built From Scratch: Adventures in X-ray Film Photography with a Homemade 11x14 View Camera," showing the camera construction in detail plus photos I have take over the last three years using X-ray film. It is available in ebook and print at all major retailers. In this lesson, I show you how I built a fully functional 11x14 view camera using basic tools and materials. Details include making the film holder, front and rear standards, focusing system, bellows and more.
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You're basically my hero. Those kids are lucky to have such a rad teacher!
Sir, you my friend are a champion. I love it. I might even have a go at this myself.
Your T nut is installed backwards at 5:05 - the flange of the nut needs to be behind the part of the front standard that will be experiencing the clamping force- as is, if you put enough force on the T nut it will pull out.
Brilliant!!!! Just love it.
WOW you are a most ingenious man, your student are very lucky to have you. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic! Great job!
Incredible!! All my respect for such a good job!
WOW nice job, that camera looks great. I'm impressed!
amazing!! well done sir
That was amazing.
A very interesting, inspiring video for photography fans. I always wanted to build a view camera and now more so. Thank you for a great video and story.
Someday I wanna make my own view camera. It will be helpful at that time. Thanks.
Thank you
wooow You are really cool person! Nice one!
Nice work and a much neater 11x14 that mine. I also used vinyl but regret it because it is so heavy
When you said 210mm I already saw the problem. Yes yes need much much much bigger (focal point wise) lens to focus this beast.
All I can say is thank you so much!
Scott, thank you for a truly excellent instructions on Home Made (DIY) large format camera, that I too have plans to make. Your instructions really have answered questions that I have been researching, specially the bellows and ground glass. I own two 4X5 1950's cameras and 1 1920 plates cameras, for which I have bought 4X5 x-ray film that I am experimenting with now.
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good. thanks
Ingenious video sir, really enjoyed that.
bravo!
nice video :-) do you have a link to your bellows process? :)
WOW!!!!!
Scott, thanks for this video. It’s encouraging! I have been wanting to build my own 4x5 camera but have not been able to find any plans or helpful instructions on building one. In addition to being a photographer, I’m also a woodworker with a well equipped shop. I was wondering if you found any useful resources for smaller view cameras?
Carpenter to carpenter, you simply cut your material to your specifications, as for.the lense and shutter you can buy them on eBay or Etsy, but expect to pay around $230 dollars because they don't make them any more. You can also buy and old brass lense and simply use the lense cover as the shutter, this works best with x-ray film.that is slower. You can make your own ground glass too, there are CZcams videos on making ground glass, it easy but take time. Your other choice it to buy the ground glass on eBay, there is one guy that makes ground glass to your measurements and charges around $30-40 dollars.
@@pedromeza2398 Yes I have made ground glass for my Graflex 4x5. It was very easy to do and great results!
Wow, what a great camera! I'm thinking of building a flexible camera system myself. One thing though, I can't figure out how to mount the camera to a tripod. May I ask what you did?
Thanks! Good question - I simply inserted a standard 1/4" threaded pronged tee-nut into the bottom of the rail. A longer coupling nut probably would have been better but I haven't had any problems with the camera holding fast to the tripod so far.
Scott Wittenburg thanks for your answer! I found an array of generic threaded inserts for metal, wood, and plastic. It looks like 1/4-20 is the size and thread pitch I need for the smaller tripod size. I wanted to make sure this part is secure, because much depends on a view camera’s rigidity, to not break and take a sharp picture under environmental challenges like windy landscapes, toddler horseplay, lack of common sense...
Dave Thomas good luck with your adventure! FYI, I have a book published about the entire process plus how I shoot X-ray film with it. It’s available at all online book shops as an ebook and print. The name is “built from scratch...”
How well did the rustoleum frosted glass work as a substitute for ground glass?
It has worked great - no problems in five years!
Why didn't you just fold each of the bellow templates [sides] before putting them together,that way each side would be exactly the same fold and would be less time consuming,once folded open it out and attach each side together?
The folds have to alternate from one side to the next, i.e. run opposite directions, so pre-folding would have been impossible.
5 Years later: Thanks for posting this but I'm not sure why you didn't include an image taken with this camera?
Rogers Photography I have since written an entire book with how I made the camera and many actual photos. The book is available at all retailers as an ebook and in print print. The name of the book is Made From Scratch and here is a link to a preview. www.alternativephotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Built-From-Scratch-sample.pdf
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