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This will be fun... I don't actually know!!!

the board is a 6 3/4" (163mm) square and about 3mm thick with a bit chomped out of the back to make it light tight.

I think it could be an SC but I'm guessing from other pics.

Looking for a recessed lens-board for my Cambo 4x5. Its to fit an Angulon 90mm so around 30mm would be ideal but less would be ok, its in a synchro-compur shutter so I think that is the same as Copal '0' or about 33mm (I'm happy to re-drill). I'm looking for cheap and functional, even diy. Otherwise...

Thanks for the offer Andrew I think your probably right, I need to learn with someone who knows enough to ask 'why' I'm doing the things I am, its because I know no better, then show me how to improve. I just don't have the time at the moment though as I'm about to become a daddy so I'll be relying ...

I had a good read, went out and took some piccies (got a freebie part box of Ilford FP4 from a member of another forum) and |I'm not too happy with the result, insane DOF so need lots of practice struggling to stop down beyond f16 as i just don't do it with 35mm. Decided I don't like the roll film b...

not sure how well the fresnel sheet would work, but I like your thinking.

Your certainly in the right area budget wise I've tried a couple of cheap magnifying glasses and most seem to have too shorter focal length at around 150mm, hence my thought at a lens from some reading glasses.

I am building a right angled camera obscura thing at work on thursday, basically it will be as follows: square wood box pin hole in the 'front' side mirror internally at 45deg opaque perspex (ground glass effectively) top the idea being you point it at your subject, stick a bit of paper on the top a...

No pre-flashing. I have some ilford grade 2 stuff here, I may have a go with that as I have loads of it. any hints on the pre-flashing?

Well it works, there are my first large format pics and I'm rather pleased with myself. They are a paper neg made of 'silverprint proof' variable contrast paper, shot at ISO 6 with no filter. There were then scanned n works cheapy epsom scanner, mirrored and inverted to give the positive image. I fo...

So where do I find a nice online idiots guide you large format. I have a camera on the way (Cambo 45 monorail) I'll be starting with a 120film back just to get my head round accurate focus and exposure without burning through sheet film. Then I'll start on the bigger stuff once I have a bit more con...

Ooops

it appears I've just bought a Cambo 5x4 monorail camera with graphex lens.

damn you ebay

Jeez I'll refer to it as such: 120 = roll film 5X4 = little sheets 8X10 = big sheets 20X24 = flippin silly sheets I'll probably go with big sheets but chop them into little sheets for testing. as I havn't anything to dev flippin silly sheets in I won't be using them (Although I do have a jobodrum su...

I'll post my successes with the positive paper (if I fail I'll just keep schtumm :)). My intention was to build a 4X5 (see I'm learning, didn't call it 5X4) camera mainly for portability but I may go straight to 8X10 my worry is outgrowing the pinhole and the subsequent cost of lenses! For the pinho...

I work in a university (Surrey) in electronic engineering (so my home brew LF camera will probably have Ap and Sp modes :) ), but we do a fair bit of 'widening access' stuff which is taking science and engineering to kids from ages of about 6 to 16. One of our projects was pin hole camera based, we ...

Hi I'm Bill from Guildford. I've been playing with photography for a couple of years now and got most enjoyment from film stuff. I only shoot 35mm at the moment (but have a very nice Canon EOS1v to do it with), and have an old zeiss medium format folder to start playing with medium format. I have be...