Fully manual, includes classics, not that common or familiar

<p>I made a Baby Bertha (long lens SLR built around a 2x3 RB Series B). An account of Berthas and my adventure has just been published on the French large format forum in English and in French. See: <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.galerie-photo.com/baby-bertha-6x9-en.html" target="_blank">http://www.galerie-photo.com/baby-bertha-6x9-en.html</a> (English) <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.galerie-photo.com/baby-bertha-6x9-fr.html" target="_blank">http://www.galerie-photo.com/baby-bertha-6x9-fr.html</a> (French) </p>

<p>Dan, I will give you kudos for being persistent! Maybe a little crazy, too, but it was an interesting read :)</p>

<p>Dan, I will give you kudos for being persistent! Maybe a little crazy, too, but it was an interesting read :)</p>

<p>Dan Fromm> Thanks for the visit into this history of something I would not have known<br>

with out your information here, I am sure you will get the camera problems solved and post some photo from it one of these days.<br>

well done in your persistence here:</p>

<p>Absolutely amazing,<strong> Dan</strong>, from the perspectives of both conception and execution. Makes my camera renovations look totally insignificant...</p>

<p>I like it! Now, to get Luigi to make a nice little tote bag for it. Can't wait to see some pics from the camera.</p>

<p>Steve, the project was a failure. The camera works, with limited shutter speeds, but won't give me what I want, full frame 2 x 3 with my longer lenses. </p>

<p>As soon as I had the thing stabilized well enough to be reasonably confident that motion blur wouldn't ruin my shots I ran a roll of E6 through it. When the film came back from the lab I measured the area illuminated in each frame, looked hard at the RB body, and realized that there was no way to make it give me what I wanted. And that was that.</p>

<p>Some things aren't meant to be.</p>

<p>Dan,<br>

I've heard about your baby bertha project for a while now. I'm sorry it did not turn out for you. </p>

<p>I think your goal is a worthy one though. Have you ever thought about upsizing to a 3x4 or 4x5 RB and using a 2x3 roll back?</p>

 

<p>Darin, thanks for the suggestions. Yes, I've contemplated looking (literally) into a larger RB to see whether its internal baffling will let me do what I want. Don't yet have the heart or budget for it now, but my abandoned projects sometimes come back to life. Having fallen into them, I now know what the major pitfalls are.</p>

<p>I thought hard about what I'm trying to accomplish, decided to move up in format to 6x12. Sold some lenses, spent the proceeds on a 4x5 Cambo, bits needed to connect 2x3 and 4x5 Cambo standards and a 6x12 roll holder, and made a tapered bag bellows for the rig. The rig is highly modular, can use all of the bits made for Baby except the RB module. The only item on the "to do" list is a modified 2x3 Cambo recessed board that will let me use my 60/14 Perigraphe on the 6x12 rig as well as on my little Century Graphic, and that's not urgent 'cos I have a perfectly usable 58/5.6 Grandagon.</p>