Miss Large Format Cameras? Now You Can 3-D Print One! Large format negatives are capable of capturing higher resolution photograph than even the most high-end digital cameras, but the expense of the equip, combined with the fact that most of the camera lines are no longer being manufactured puts them out of the reach of most of us photography enthusiasts. Thanks to 3-D printing, creating your own large format camera at a bargain basement price with newly released schematics from Thingverse.
Todd Schlemmer has posted a design for what he has dubbed the PINH5AD, a new 3-D printed pinhole camera that uses 4x5-inch format film, a large format film size that is sixteen times the size of a standard 35mm film. If you don’t have your own 3-D printer, Schlemmer also has a PINH5AD design on the Shapeways marketplace that goes for $207 in white or $241 in black.
The PINH5AD is an evolution of sorts from Schlemmer’s previous 3-D-printed 35mm PINHE4D camera, which he uploaded to Thingiverse back in August. Like the P4, the P5 has only one moving part: the shutter blade that exposes the 4x5 negative to light through the pinhole, reducing the likelihood of breakage.
The standard P5 has a 90mm lens for a .40mm pinhole with an f-stop of f/225 and a 70-degree horizontal field of view, but Schlemmer has recently updated the design for a 150mm “Normal view” extender that shaves the horizontal field of view down to 46 degrees but drops the f-stop to f/300. If you came up as a digital photography native and have access to a 3-D printer, this is your chance to try analog large-format printing without investing hundreds of dollars in an antique large format camera.
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