Does anyone know where to get a kit or plans for building a field camera that folds up? Similar to the Bender kits but not a monorail. Thanks

-- dan brittain (danb@mbiarch.com), December 06, 1999

Answers

Check here and here. DJ

-- N Dhananjay (ndhanu@umich.edu), December 06, 1999.

I'm not a proponent of doing this yourself, but if the urge is just too much to suppress, take a look at the construction article in the Nov./ Dec. 1996 issue of ViewCamera. When you're done reading that, read the very next article on testing your ground glass alignment. If you expect to get sharp results from a home-built camera, you will need to know how to test ground glass/film plane alignment.

-- Robert A. Zeichner (razeichner@ameritech.net), December 07, 1999.

You will find some useful links here: http://home.sol.no/~gjon/lffaq.htm James Vail has online plans, Doug Bardell will sell plans at a reasonable price. You find links to their web pages from the above URL. You will also find some links from this page: http://home.sol.no/~gjon/jgcam.htm

-- Jon Grepstad (gjon@online.no), December 21, 1999.

Please note that the URL of my site is now: http://home.online.no/~gjon The old site is no longer updated.

-- Jon Grepstad (gjon@online.no), August 24, 2000.