I first saw a pic of this camera in Lee Frost's well known book 'Panoramic Photography' about five years ago. Recently while re-reading the same book, my interest in this camera got rekindled and thanks to Matt Sampson, who told me about the person behind this camera.
Mr. Jack Tait constructed a number of beautiful precision cameras including this one and all were sold away. Besides building cameras he established two schools of photography, one of design, written a few books and practiced as a freelance. Being a lover of analog gadgets I very much liked his hand built analog plotting devices or Taitographs: a discipline important enough to be the topic of someone's PhD thesis.
This 6x12 panoramic camera comes with a rising front and shifting viewfinder., making it very suitable for architectural panorama. In his own words, "This was made using a Mamyia 6x12 back and to my knowledge was the first 6x12 camera to have movable rising front with a fully tracking viewfinder."
I thank Mr. Tait for providing information and pictures of many of his handmade cameras which I'll be publishing serially in my blog.
His website being:
His website being:
Do visit his website to know more about him, his cameras and other very interesting objects.
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