Many of us have heard in the news that the USA is in need of a major infrastructure rebuild. I decided to do my part these last two weeks and have completed two crucial upgrades to Castle Daguerre – power and a fume hood. (Well you didn’t expect me to build a bridge did you?) :) [Read more →]
Not much to look at considering the cost I know, but there it is. The clip that holds the ground glass on the B&J Grover 8×10 camera I am “restoring”. I’m missing one. I went on emachineshop.com the other day and had a grand time learning their free design software and mocking up my little brass part. Unfortunately when I ran the price calculator it came out to be [Read more →]
Hooray for the swap meet! I went to a modest photography swap meet today looking for 8×10 film holders. My big plan was to buy one or two [Read more →]
Success. I have created a ground glass focusing screen for the 8×10 camera body. Perfect? No. Functional? Yes. [Read more →]
Yesterday’s project was to create a new ground glass for my B&J 8×10 camera. I almost succeeded. [Read more →]
Courtesy Lib. of Congress