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Major Nikon

(36,818 posts) Tue Oct 5, 2021, 10:27 PM Oct 2021

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Building a Large Format Camera

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Building a Large Format Camera (Original Post) Major Nikon Oct 2021 OP

Love seeing vintage and modern photos with LF cameras. Hoyt Oct 2021 #1

Check this out ... marble falls Oct 2021 #3

Cool. Seems reasonably priced too. Hoyt Oct 2021 #4

Very reasonable. There's only a $40 difference between buying it assembled and as a kit ... marble falls Oct 2021 #6

Oh what memories it brings. AndyS Oct 2021 #2

Something I didn't know. Frasier Balzov Oct 2021 #5

There's still a market for large format cameras and film Major Nikon Oct 2021 #7

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Love seeing vintage and modern photos with LF cameras.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 10:35 PM

Oct 2021

marble falls

(57,010 posts)

3. Check this out ...

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 10:56 PM

Oct 2021

https://www.standardcameras.com/shop/

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

4. Cool. Seems reasonably priced too.

Reply to marble falls (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 11:05 PM

Oct 2021

marble falls

(57,010 posts)

6. Very reasonable. There's only a $40 difference between buying it assembled and as a kit ...

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 11:26 PM

Oct 2021

... at seventy, I'm willing to pop for the $40. I've wanted one for years. I still have an enlarger and trays, hidden somewhere in the garage.

AndyS

(14,559 posts)

2. Oh what memories it brings.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 10:50 PM

Oct 2021

Schiemflug principal, perspective control . . . *sigh*

Digital has most of these covered with a little trade off but Schiemflug is still out there.

Frasier Balzov

(2,639 posts)

5. Something I didn't know.

Reply to Major Nikon (Original post)

Tue Oct 5, 2021, 11:06 PM

Oct 2021

They're still making film for cameras of this type.

Major Nikon

(36,818 posts)

7. There's still a market for large format cameras and film

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 6, 2021, 12:33 PM

Oct 2021

As the video briefly describes, there are things you can do with a tilt/shift camera that are very difficult to do otherwise. If you're ever seen a poster or mural sized landscape photo in stunning resolution and incredible depth of field, chances are it was done in large format.

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