Long time no blog! I've not been taking that many photos recently. Due to a lack of funds, interest and extended holiday, we decided to give up the studio and that has meant that I haven't had anywhere to take portraits during the cold winter months. Now that the lighter evenings are with us and the temperature is climbing, I hope to start taking more portraits, but using different outdoor locations....
I have spent the winter designing a couple of cameras, one of which is partially made and the other mostly drawn up. I have just started on the design of a third camera too.
The one I have partially built is a 5 x 4 monorail camera which I am building specifically for photographing Canterbury Cathedral. Anyone who has been there will appreciate that one has to get quite close before one has an uninterrupted view of the entire building. This requires a very wide angle lens which causes severe distortion of the image. A monorail view camera will allow a wide angle lens to be used, but with all it's movements should remove the distortion....
The second camera is a 617. I like panoramic images and like the idea of taking them in the right format, rather than having to crop 'normal ratio' images to form them! I hope I am being clever as the intention is that the 617 body will fit onto the 5 x 4 body - using a special adapter plate - so I can use the view camera in 2 different formats.
You will probably have realised that both these cameras will use film! My intention is to scan the negatives and then use my computer to process the images. I have no intention of getting back into a darkroom!
The third camera which I am just starting to design in my head, is a pancake type which will use a 645 film back initially, though ultimately my aim is to get a digital back to use with it.
As the design and build of these cameras progress, I'll get more info posted on the blog, but for now, that's it!
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