Re: Camera Design Problem

How about a camera with interchangeable curved backs that could be loaded
in the darkroom. Maybe to make it easier to build make the back flat where
it joins the camera and where the dark slide goes in.

Max

At 10:44 AM 12/13/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Group,
>
>I have been making pinhole images on 4x11 inch paper negatives mounted on
a film plane with a 5
>inch radius of curvature. The results have been very satisfying, but the
aggravation of running
>back to the darkroom to unload and reload after each exposure is getting
to me.
>
>I would like to modify the camera so that it holds five or six negatives
that can be moved into
>place without having to open the camera under darkroom conditions.
>
>Does anyone have any clever ideas about how to manipulate these largish
negatives onto and off
>of a curved film plane? (I would like to do this entirely within the
camera without the use of
>changing bags or portable darkrooms.)
>
>I saw one design with flat negatives that were on hinged plates that could
be pulled up into
>position with strings that were fed through the camera body. Great idea,
but it does not lend
>itself to anamorphic designs with their curved film mounting.
>
>My first design was a complete flop, and I have a couple of other
rudimentary ideas, but before
>wasting more and more hours on approaches that may have no hope of
success, I thought I would do
>a "literature search" to see if anyone in this group knows of a viable
approach.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob
>
>
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Received on Wed Dec 13 14:20:48 2000