Homemade 6x17 - and yes, it's a rangefinder

That's a nice rig he's built, and a clever use of bits and pieces. His sample photos are impressive, too. MacGyver would be proud.
 
That's cool.
I hadn't thought about using the bellows from an enlarger to rack the lens out!.
Most of the designs I've seen have 2 tubes or boxes sliding inside each other, or handmade bellows.
Now where's that 4x5" lens I bought?:rolleyes:
 
Nice, Cool, ingenious, but not for me. I have too much stuff already. I'd throw in $25 with ten others and we could pass it around.
 
Very cool. Josef Sudek made something similar (with one arm!) from an old Kodak box. He didn't use bellows though, I think he had something like a cone on the front. He used it to create the post-industrial panoramics of northern Bohemia, published in Sad Landscape, that so inspired Josef Koudelka.
 
peter_n said:
Very cool. Josef Sudek made something similar (with one arm!) from an old Kodak box. He didn't use bellows though, I think he had something like a cone on the front. He used it to create the post-industrial panoramics of northern Bohemia, published in Sad Landscape, that so inspired Josef Koudelka.
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Two of my favorite photographers.
 
kaiyen said:
I bid on this, but lost in the end by a few dollars. It seemed like an awfully inexpensive way into this format, which I love very much. However, it didn't really make sense for me:

http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/15/camera-format-wars/

So it all works out. Still looking for a new 5x7 camera, though.
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Nice blog. You're right, tough call. For me, the ability to use roll film and get 6x17 would be a factor, assuming I could afford either. Roll film being somewhat cheaper and not requiring (for me) development tanks, etc, that I don't have (I do have 120 stuff).
 
Good point. I am lucky that I have already been shooting 5x7 so I have all the development equipment and the techniques down. And I am comfortable with the "method," too - working slowly, one shot an hour or so, no problem. Very different experience.
 
kaiyen said:
I bid on this, but lost in the end by a few dollars. It seemed like an awfully inexpensive way into this format, which I love very much. However, it didn't really make sense for me:

http://kaiyen.com/blog/2008/12/15/camera-format-wars/

So it all works out. Still looking for a new 5x7 camera, though.
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You can sometimes get a bargain on pnet:

http://photo.net/gc/domain-multi?sort_by=posted&category=Panoramic

I got a Fotoman 617 very cheap there earlier this year.
 
I think it was $750 with lens cone. The current model with just three rolls of film through it, so it was essentially new. :) I think the price at the time was $1700, don't know what it is now. A beautifully made body that is built like a tank.
 
Another DIY 6x17
http://www.stockholmviews.com/diyphotogear/diy_6x17_camera.html
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