Building a DIY Lens

[David Mitchell]

Come on David, really looking forward to the final product.

You are going to complete it aren't you?!

Well to finish this I need to:

Mount the lenses in a lens board
Create waterhouse stops
Buy all dark room equipment
Purchase paper negatives
Find something to take a photo of
Develop photos for the first time
Scan in paper negative and invert into positive
Upload and put on here
All this keeping control of the budget lol

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Budget??!!! Certainly know how that feels.

When do you think you'll have this completed by?
The camera that is?

 

[David Mitchell]

Update on this...its getting there, just need to add a bag bellow to bridge the gap between lens and body



Runners to allow lens to sit on the OEM focusing rack



Image on ground glass



Small gap I need to bridge to make it light tight:

 

[Paul Lange]

That is looking pretty good David. The soft effect works well too.

 

[David Mitchell]

Its sharper than this lens that I have just made a basic lens board for - its a single element meniscus lens with an integrated stop (guessing that is one of the original 'landscape' lenses).