Why is it that every time I start to feel like the biggest geek in the world someone steps up and out geeks me? Introducing the geekiest photographer on the planet. This guy has milled/built/hammered/fabricated his very own SLR camera.
He details the project, I’m guessing as it’s 100% in French, here on this forum. (Don’t worry non-French speaking people.. there are plenty of pictures from the build).
I let Google translate the opening post from this DIY thread. It’s not that clear but you’ll get the idea. (the little smilies are his)
Voila after a brief discussion with Sylvain MP who agrees 300%, I’ll show you my new challenge “home-made” a little crazy:
It is neither more nor less than to make with my characters a means SLR 24×36, I have this project in mind for 25 years but I did not have the technical nor the expertise necessary to complete the project at the end, now I’m going on 42 years
- so the goal is not to use Recycling parts, except for the canvas curtain that is part of the trade such as ball bearings and screws, I have even found ways to make me: glass, frosted and the same prism
- Aircraft Not one piece for each copy an existing model but a complete re-design to enable the realization of how characters with a workshop equipped with machine tools model. Although the design is based solutions known as the focal plane shutter Leica II
- I found nothing on the net even in the Anglo-Saxons who are savvy home-made, therefore I shall dry plaster
- Draft Not without
difficulty, if not grasped it not
interesting. For me the two most-blocking, sealing the light and the focal plane shutter. For sealing I’ll work around the problem by loading my inspiration from below as the Leica zento1, Zorki … Except that it is no longer the sole body that will remove a block as a sock. Regarding the shutter, and although I have observed a Zenit 1 from every angle, and well observed wreckage Zenit E to understand how I struggled to understand but now it is clear .
- Last, the device must have a reasonable size compared to what exists, art will be the level of what we had in the 50s, I do not think being able for example to ensure Flash back of the mirror, but hey, do not blame too early, otherwise the draft dodger and AC remains unfinished in a box
- of course I’m also listening to your comments and constructive criticism.
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2 Comments at "Some French Dude Made His Own SLR"
Bad. Ass. I suppose now I’m only half the geek I used to be for writing my own code, tanking my own film, etc. I’d love to be walking around the WPPI tradeshow floor with that hanging around my neck… “Where’d you get that camera?”
“I made it with my own bare hands.”
It’s a copy of the Exakta VX
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