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I have made a bit more progresss on mine and updated the web page a bit: http://stevesmithphoto.webs.com/pano612.html


Steve.

From the listing: I bought it to go on holiday with and take nice landscapes but found it would be better suited to someone with more patients!

Perhaps a doctor bought it!


Steve.

Emmanuel Bigler wrote:- the image will be left-right reversed

Unless you include a mirror in the camera: http://www.timhunkin.com/61_cameras.htm


Steve.

I am beginning to feel a little sorry for Dave Dawson, the original poster. All he wanted to do was make a simple wooden fixed focus camera using a 90mm Super Angulon lens. He has been told he will need a very expensive or home-made focussing mount or will need to shim the lens board to overcome hi...

With regard to focus testing, trying to find infinity on an ƒ/8 lens would be a very inexact way to approach things, and would invariably end up with focusing error in the close range. I know, I tried it! I found the best plan was to use the data from Schneider's website and set the back of the shu...

Matt, do you have any details of your camera anywhere? I apologise if they are on your website but I couldn't find anything.


Steve.

Well my fixed focus camera project hasn't got off to a very good start :( I haven't been able to find an old 5x4 international back or a #0 shutter at a reasonable price I keep getting outbid) :'( Has anyone got either of the above please? The back doesn't have to be pretty and can have a broken/mi...

Alan Clark wrote:Steve. Do you really need all your fingers to play the guitar? How many did Django Reinhart have?

Well - I do occasionally play Django type stuff but even with all of my fingers, I'm nowhere near Django's competence!


Steve.

Steve, it's the Olympus mount that causes the vignette when the lens is rotated out. I found I had to file it to accommodate the image corners. So far, I have only tried this with a 6x6 format so obviously I have missed out on the vignetting. I am hoping that with 6x12 format it will be o.k. too bu...

What's all this "finger joint" malarky? Shame on you both! Nothing beats nice hand-cut dovetails!! I can do hand cut dovetails but CNC cut finger joints look much better than my not so nice dovetails.... And I refuse to use one of those router jig thingies to cut them! Actually, as I am a guitar pl...

Here's another 65mm in an Olympus 50mm helical- in American black walnut That does look good. Did you take any pictures during construction? I would love to see the inside of the wooden parts. **** It looks as if you have modified the same Olympus lens as I have. I started out with a Minolta lens a...

Thanks. That is a better collection of data. Interestingly, the recommended image area for the 65mm S A is 65mm x 90 but it gets used on 5" x 4".


Steve.

by my calculations the distance from the film plane to the back of the lens board is about 97mm for a S.A. 90mm f8 lens at infinity........Would you go along with that? Have a look here: http://www.ebonycamera.com/articles/lenses.html Data for a load of lenses. The last figure is the film plane to ...

yeah I've seen those holgas - the nagging doubt I have is that the holga could potentially have crap film flatness (i doubt flatness is high on the agenda of the average holga user) I had thought that too but based on my results with the 65mm lens, I don't think film flatness will be an issue! Steve.

I had a similar idea of building a 6x14 rollfilm camera with a 90mm lens but never came to anything. one idea was to hack one of those old kodak 3a autographics but it just seemed a clunky solution. There is a 6x12 format pinhole Holga which seems ideal for this sort of thing. It could even be forc...