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camera making

Make the sliding box camera by Ty Guillroy

Making the Sliding Box Camera

Learn how to construct a camera in wood, dating back to the daguerreotype era.

Categories Books, Daguerrotypes, Wetplate collodions
Making the traditional wet plate camera

Making the Traditional Wet Plate Camera

From the basics to more advanced techniques on building a historically-correct bellows camera for plate photography.

Categories Books, Wetplate collodions
Monocles grids

Monocles lens: Designing a single element lens

Carlo Ponzoni designs a lens. In the first part of the article he works on dimensions and aperture.

Categories Cameras, film & technique
Shot by the Cyclops II photographic camera lens.

Cyclops Part II

Part II in how to make lenses do what you want, by Jonathan Brewer.

Categories Cameras, film & technique

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