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One Step Closer to Finishing a Korona View Full Plate Camera

12/8/2015

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Day 1 of Restoration
Day 2 of Restoration
About a year later the camera has been put back together! (thanks dad)
Which now means that full plate tintypes and ambrotypes will soon be coming my way and I couldn't be more excited. The past three years I have been using a standard 5x7 View camera that couldn't do landscapes at the size of doing 5x7 and its been something I have been wanting to do for a long time. 
(To check out the previous posts for this camera please click the buttons above)
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The next step before this camera is completed is to modify a plate holder and to also clean this unmarked lens and make a lens board to fit this camera. I'm excited for this lens because there is a built in aperture ring. With my Voightlander lens I only have one waterhouse stop, and with my Marion lens, I have none. So I'm excited to do some testing once everything is built together and cleaned up nicely. 
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We even washed the original ground glass and looks good as new! Also saved us some $$ for having a new one made. 
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Testing out a lens to see if it covers the ground glass. (it did)
Couldn't resist putting the camera on my tripod to get a few pictures of it in front of the christmas tree!
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Chris (@wetplates) link
12/16/2015 04:16:26 pm

If you need waterhouse stops, just cut them out of aluminum (like most use for tintypes). Cut the shape out with tin snips and drill the holes with a spade bit (slowly)...1/2 way through, then flip to the other side...gives a clean hole.

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    Catherine Segura is a Millennial Slacker working her way to being  full time Wet Plate Photographer, she occasionally picks up a DSLR camera.

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