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red wood 4x5 inch camera
« on: September 12, 2011, 10:23:40 AM »
Hello

My name is Damian I am old watcher but new filmwasters member. I am amateur photographer with big passion to building my own cameras. i want to show my newest build red wood 4x5 inch camera. Camera is build with read wood no stain , paint etc. and finish with traditional chinese style ( hot wax ). I build everything myself including making plate holders and ground glass.

Camera is versatile may take traditional 4x5 film holder and plate holders which i build. Samples taken on film and collodion. Film samples taken on Shanghai 100 film pushed to 400 , develop in R09. Later they were contact printed with 25watt white light bulb ( 2 sec exposure , 1 meter ) on ilford Multigrade paper - woman with moustache , and fomabrom fb paper - first picture.

best regards to all filmwasters

Damian 





  
« Last Edit: September 12, 2011, 04:26:16 PM by damiand »

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2011, 10:39:14 AM »
that's kind of really amazing. nice work here.

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2011, 10:40:03 AM »
Hi, Damian. Welcome.

The camera is beautiful as are the photos.

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2011, 11:20:57 AM »
Welcome, Wonderful skills, lovely images!
There's more to this photography thing than meets the eye.

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2011, 01:51:31 PM »
Damian, impressive; my manual skills are limited to igniting matches..  :'(

That first portrait is just fantastic, it conveys so much.. do you have websit, flickr...?

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« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2011, 02:26:00 PM »
Hi Damian

wonderful looking camera and pictures.

Whilst undoubtedly we are all keen to hear how you get along with your camera in development etc, and please let us know how this progresses, we are keen for all members to stick to our non-commercial postings only rule.  If you haven't already, please take the time to take a look at the "housekeeping" board - especially this thread: http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=70.0

I'm looking forward to seeing more pictures taken with your camera.
L.

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2011, 03:14:15 PM »
yeah, that looks like a work of art~

please keep posting shots here. I like the ones you included :)
/jonas

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2011, 04:12:08 PM »
Bonjour Damien...
Francois

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2011, 04:19:41 PM »
Dear Leon: I am sorry for breaking the rules i will correct this right now :)

Photo_Utopia: Yes i am still new here and forgot add my flicker page : http://www.flickr.com/photos/damiandzialoszynski/

SprayNPray: Thank You

Phil Bebbington: Thank You

calbisu : More pictures done with this camera are bellow:










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« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2011, 04:44:40 PM »
Damian - no rules broken and certainly no hard feelings. Just a gentle reminder :)  superb pictures by the way.
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« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2011, 05:15:00 PM »
Wonderful camera and images Damion!!!
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« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2011, 05:23:19 PM »
Love the camera and the images..eager to hear more about the camera when you are up and running..

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2011, 08:35:20 PM »
nice work, and i like your wallpaper too :)

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« Reply #13 on: September 12, 2011, 08:57:13 PM »
Stunning. I love 'Woman with a moustache' (and, like Vicky, was admiring your wallpaper)
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« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2011, 10:00:32 PM »
Hi Damian,

I've looked through some of your sites, and your work, both in shooting and in constructing cameras, is great! You and Brana have some really crazy things going on :D

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« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2011, 10:50:01 PM »
Welcome to the forum Damian... lovely camera and amazing portraits!
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« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2011, 01:30:52 PM »
Hi Damian, welcome to Filmwasters. I've had a poke about on your sites too and really liked what i saw. Good luck with the camera construction project; the camera looks fantastic. Red bellows are my favourite  ;D

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2011, 02:02:41 PM »
Mojave : Thank You

Diane Peterson : Thanks

vicky slater : Thank You , and Yes i also like this wallpaper ( we rent this apartment , its only one thing what i like :) ).

tuanhbui  : Thank You Yes Brana is scanner camera master i wish i may write here about scanner cameras but it isn't about digital :)

Karl : thank you this is my lovely wife :)

sapata : Thanks

ed.wenn : Thank You i am  huge fun of this website and i love podcasts . I remember that once in podcast You mentioned red bellows thing . Red Bellows are my favourite too:). Great job with audio podcast and Harman guy interview . Unfortunately here in china i am using only Shanghai film , both 120 and 4x5 from ilford are to expensive for me even collodion is cheaper than ilford films :)      





 


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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #18 on: September 16, 2011, 09:20:53 PM »
Must feel nice to see such nice pictures out of something you build it yourself!

I really like the woman with moustache one!

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Re: red wood 4x5 inch camera
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2011, 03:14:38 PM »
some more wet plates from camera :)