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Built From Scratch: Adventures in X-ray film photography with a homemade 11×14 view camera

by Scott Wittenburg Buy “Built From Scratch” directly from Scott Wittenburg Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Amazon.co.uk About the book: The host of Photography 101 chronicles how he created an 11×14 view camera from scratch and uses it to photograph black and white images with X-ray film. An illustrated account of the design and construction of his fully functional large format camera using only standard carpentry tools is presented … Read more

Spiral Phot

Spiral phot supplies handmade 4×5 wooden pinhole cameras, and contact printing frames.

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.

Making the Traditional Wet Plate Camera

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

a black and white, aluminum and acrylic large format camera prototype

Acrylic and Aluminum Homemade Large Format Camera: Preview

Elizabeth Graves provides a preview of her recent large format camera-building experiments.

Peeping through: The magic of peephole lenses

Heather Siple tells us how and why we should try out peephole photography.

Monocles lens: Making and testing

Carlo Ponzoni designs a lens. In the second part of the article he works on assembly and finishing. He also compares the result to other lenses.

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.

Against all good advice: how to build a large format camera for wet collodion work at home

The unlikely story of how Elizabeth Graves built a large format camera, modified film holders by her own design to hold wet plates, mixed collodion chemistry without blowing up her home, used her garage door as a shutter, and (after several adjustments) got her homemade plates into a group gallery show in New York City.