Topic: A Roll in the Garden

[Sandeha Lynch]

The title's a bad pun, but when the camera's called "The Garden Camera" ...

It's a medium format view camera that I made five years ago and once trialed it hardly ever got used again.  Recent discussions (you know who you are  ) prompted me to get a new lens for it and run a roll through.  Here's the cam with an uncoated 105mm Certar, ripped untimely from its 1930s Certix folder.



Now this is complicated.  An RB67 film back on a wooden medium format view camera, with a 105mm triplet lens from a 1930s folding camera, and a push-on Zeiss Proxar close-up lens on the front.  Front tilt and swing, and back tilt where necessary.

All shots either f4.5 or f22.  Lighting from a daylight neon strip in the light tent.  Neopan 400, dev'd in Ilford DDX.













And yes, that's a Bear with a Pearl Earring. 

Well, it's been raining all day.   

[LT]

Nice to see it up and running Sandeha.  The camera and pics look great.

Now, I wonder what mad-man would want to take on building something like this ... I suspect he'll need some serious medication and community care at the end of it all.  I hope it's all worth it for him.

[Francois]

Nice box!
How many hours to put this together? Does it take only rollback?

[Sandeha Lynch]

Francois, it was built for sheet film, Polaroid (RB67 again) and roll-back, but only the roll-back is at all efficient.



No real idea of how long it took ... 75 hours, maybe.

[Ed Wenn]

Great stuff. I've been getting the other side of this saga from our Leon, so it's good to see The Teacher posting some new shots from one of his prototype models.