Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Some handmade panoramic cameras from portugal

After a long hiatus I become active again. Nevertheless, during this time of inactivity I  managed to get information on at least a dozen of handmade panoramic cameras, which I'll sequentially keep on publishing here.

Today I wish to present three cameras fabricated by Chave Treze from Portugal. He has several handmade cameras to his credit and I'll present three of his cameras which are of panoramic format. You can visit his webpage at http://chavetreze.blogspot.pt/

The first one is a converted Nikon F3 panoramic , with a Holga Lens that yields 24 x72 mm exposures. The details can be found here.




The second one one being a 35mm  slit-scan design




The third one too is a slit-scan but medium format. Read about the camera  here. 



There is a nice video on the last camera in action:




I thank Mr. Chave Treze for allowing me to use these pictures.