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Pinoramic 120

Gallery of Pinoramic 120 Photographs

5 by 7 Stereoscopic Field Camera

5 by 7 Convertible Camera with Turret

Sculptural Wooden Tripod

Building the P.90

The aluminum shutter for the P.90 is mounted in a precisely bored recess in the front panel of the camera. The assembled camera body is shown here mounted in the milling machine to perform this boring operation. The holes in the top and bottom panels of the body that eventually receive the hardware for transporting film are used throughout the construction process as a primary datum. In this case, a pair of 1 inch aluminum rods are mounted into these holes and are used both to level the face of the camera relative to the spindle and also to center the body for the positioning of the bore.

The back for the new Pinoramic 120 is made as a bent lamination of 3 or 5 thin pieces of wood joined together on a pneumatically operated bending fixture. Using the process described here it will be sliced up into three pieces. The wide middle piece will become the pair of doors that provide access to the film compartment. The narrow upper and lower pieces become fixed parts of the camera body above and below the doors.

Attached to the milling machine is this gang saw made up of four sawblades held apart at the precise distances required to cut out the three camera back components. In actual use it will have a guard/dust collector attached!

This vacuum operated fixture holds the raw back lamination (the curved wooden piece at right) firmly in place and allows it to be sliced into the three required pieces of precise dimension plus a waste strip at the top and the bottom. In use, the fixture is moved over and rotated against the gang saw to cut the parts.

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