Building a Large Format Camera

[Osvaldo Cristo]

Interesting project to make in spare time - mainly if you appreciate film camera.

https://youtu.be/SKZOGgjh_F4

I hope you enjoy!

[Jim Koepke]

One of my employers had built their own camera for their silkscreen print shop.

The lens was mounted in a wall and the film board was inside the darkroom. Both the film board and object board were mounted on rolling door rails.

It was big enough to handle film 36"X48".

jtk

[Bill Dufour]

go bigger.
Bill D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_Obscura_(San_Francisco,_California)

[John K Jordan]

Interesting project to make in spare time - mainly if you appreciate film camera.

https://youtu.be/SKZOGgjh_F4

I hope you enjoy!

Are you building one?

[Jerome Stanek]

I ran a Graphics camera had a 20X36 vac frame and 10 foot long rails used to make news papers negs.

[Roger Feeley]

One of my employers had built their own camera for their silkscreen print shop.

The lens was mounted in a wall and the film board was inside the darkroom. Both the film board and object board were mounted on rolling door rails.

It was big enough to handle film 36"X48".

jtk

i worked at a place in Kansas City that had one of those grand cameras. It was the same arrangement. Lane Blueprint at 9th and grand if memory serves.

[Osvaldo Cristo]

Oh no, I am not building one of that... actually, in the past century I built one from cardboard and some metal parts. It worked, but as expected, it had short lifespan.

I worked on that time with digital prepress but I got familiar with very big format view cameras to create films to be employed to create offset (lithography) press plates.

I have no special feelings for film Photography. I was fully converted to digital one on 1998. I saw the light! :-)