This project was the result of a conversation between myself and Brian Stafford, Uilleann piper and photographer.

​Brian mentioned that he would love to have a Large Format Camera, this is a film camera 
He said that he did not have the necessary equipment and resources to make one
I volunteered to have a try so Brian forwarded me the drawings he had and I started on the project in July 2017

The drawings were OK, but not completely understandable, but I persevered and on 30th September Brian took his first photos with the new camera. Once I understood what I was trying to do the project became very possible. Brian undertook to make the Bellows for the camera and having watched various YouTube videos he was successful in making a great set of bellows.
I put frames into each end of the bellows and fitted them to the front and rear frames of the camera.
Brian had bought the lens for the camera, I fitted it to the front frame, it started to look like a camera.

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