I built my dream camera

[@DominikNal]

Man is starting his own camera company, great work sir! Looking forward to more.

[@zalantoth]

Imagine making this camera in injection molded plastic version, like the compact cameras.

[@C4_Corvette_man]

​@@zalantoth you can do it

[@franzjosefstakes]

This is what I love about film. It's such a versatile medium that really encourages DIY projects.

[@zalantoth]

Yes, it is indeed very versatile! You can do many many things with especially a 120 film.

Hihetetlen, hogy milyen ambiciózus magyar videósok bújnak meg sokszor a youtube bugyraiban. Hajrá!

[@terrywbreedlove]

Nick carver would love your camera and photo subjects wouldn't he. :)

[@boepet]

Cool Schneider Kreuznach! ❤Next to my hometown.

[@frenchmangocider]

I hope this is the beginning of something amazing from both a content and gear perspective

[@JonnyBarrett]

You.... made this?!?! That's awesome. You have a very bright future on this platform, I'm glad I get to watch from the beginning!

[@zalantoth]

Thank you, it means so much!

[@bobbleczar]

add a spirit level on the camera to help with leveling the horizon.

[@northwest_rain]

I love film just as much as the next film junkie, but building your own camera is some next level wizard shit... I love your drive to make what isn't commonly available! Got a new sub! (Also, love the grainydays inspiration)

[@zalantoth]

Thanks! I may watch too many grainydays video, but it's somehow neever enough.

[@northwest_rain]

@@zalantoth Hey I'm right there in the same situation with you haha

[@RavenLittle]

I love your choice of music while developing the film!

[@zalantoth]

It was in breaking bad, the video got copyrighted though, but I don't get any money from it so I don't care.

[@seanchang4442]

What a design, simple but effective approach. Good luck with the project

[@rickardbarendsen1782]

How can you sound so melancholic talking about something as awesome as a 3'd printable camera that you made yourself. Even the photos are amazing, geez my dude, cheer up, it's okey to be proud.

[@Francois_L_7933]

When I build my own cameras, I always auto-colimate the lenses by looking at a target through the lens with a 210mm zoom on my SLR. You can get a lot more precision like that.

[@lilkngstr]

Such a perfect bathroom sink for developing!

[@KasperVideo]

That developing montage was honestly amazing, Walter would approve

[@diogofaria5965]

Saw these a few days ago on reddit. Glad to see it here too!

[@HeycheckAvailability]

This is really cool. All the best!

[@lippumoqueur6877]

You built MY dream camera, congrats

[@zalantoth]

Thanks! I got inspired by Nick Carver, I think he managed to get the 6x17 known all over the world.

[@roberthuszar5566]

Gratulálok Zalán! Remekül sikerült a fényképezőgép és a vele készített képek is! Ha jól ismertem fel, akkor Győr volt a helyszín. Csak így tovább!

[@Somethingwithfilm]

Amazing aspect ratio. Appreciate the effort.

[@marcoandres7475]

Inventive. The car wash is « dope » [really striking]. Start small [fixed focus]. You're already planning the variable focus version. Consider adding masks for 6x12 and 6x9, and adding more red windows to facilitate proper frame spacing. On Etsy over 8 people have it in their baskets.

[@RÅNÇIÐ]

Ey, I saw your photos on Reddit. Great job on that camera.

[@NandR]

Same. Cool to see a video now!

[@Rcmike1234]

Thank you for posting this

[@blainemarcano]

Wow! Excellent work!

[@sbcinema]

Great camera, very interesting ( if you add a small spirit level on top it gets easier to take pictures that are straight )

[@HOGG1Photography]

So sick! when this camera gets its view finder and its gonna be a monster! good job

[@zalantoth]

Just wait until I release the newest version...(thank you though)

[@natureandoptics1111]

Very cool. Good luck with your future projects!

[@Made_by_Matthew]

I love this idea

[@dennyrulos7370]

Great production quality!!!

[@buildplay2302]

Absolutely incredible. Great work.

[@blearmoon]

Great work Zalán, I had almost exactly same idea back when I was just started photography history in university, even with same frame size, though I was imagine it to be a pinhole instead of having lens in my case.

[@MarylandDroneMedia]

Very cool

[@orion7741]

making Bellows is not hard. it is actually very easy to make your own camera bellows. with todays awesome tech, you can even 3D print camera bellows using a resin printer and special flexible resin!! its pretty awesome honestly. traditional bellows can be made by anybody that has access to a hobby store for the fabric and cardstock.

[@theothertonydutch]

Keeping an eye on this

[@bede9099]

great video man👍

[@antithoth6966]

The algorithm gods have blessed me with this video, great job man!

[@zalantoth]

I think it finally blessed me too after 8 years

[@gamebuster800]

that development montage was great, hah

[@ashleytheislander]

This is very impressive! I'm definitely interested, especially in the v617. well done!

[@Scyth3934]

Amazing job!!!!!!!

[@jaockb1541]

pretty cozy

[@drbleed]

Wow, nagyon jo vagy Zalan, igy tovabb!

[@sgtrock68]

I'd love to try this...if not for all the prerequisites that I don't have. I'm not much of a photographer anyway. I do have an AE1, but I forgot how to use it, and develop it, 40 years ago. Please show more pictures though!

[@StrangelyIronic]

I photoscan with a MFT camera all the time, from the E-M5 Mark II years ago, to an E-M1 Mark III now. They all come out with great results when using HiRes shot modes Olympus put in and Panasonic copied with the G9 and now S cameras. I also photoscan with a Pentax KP first and now a K-1 Mark II, both using a Pixel Shift HiRes mode to improve color detail and get less noise. Another use for them is I take digital shots of large paintings for people that want digital backups without scanning large pieces. Interesting pano camera, 2 thumbs up for building it and developing the film yourself. I make prints now too after getting a massive discount (free outside of going and getting it) on a solid color enlarger and everything else for developing prints from the college I went to that axed their commercial photography major and the film classes along with it.

[@hallopatif]

Man the montage is amazing

[@caturlifelive]

Awesome

[@juanjgf]

I saw this on reddit is pretty cool

[@SamiAbuauad]

this is Fantastic!!! beautiful work Zalán!

[@musicparoyds]

Incredible work. Perhaps I'll order one soon!

[@borromine]

Bravo!!!

[@CristanBoerg]

Very interesting! Thanks for showing! 👍

[@downthehatch2260]

I want to see you engineer this camera to be the best it can this has so much potential and I am in love with it

[@NilesHeckman]

Mad respect to this.

[@paullichte]

dude that is remarkable! Looking forward to see what you’re gonna come up with in the future

[@nguyenhoangvu9609]

This is what i looking for.😊

[@sr3d-microphones]

Night shots taken just before it’s completed dark gives great deep blue skies, they call it something but I can’t remember the term, magic hour or something I think. I used to be obsessed with photography and even built a fisheye lens with a load of lenses a local photo shop gave me, used plastersene or however you spell it to fix the lenses in an old lens case. Never let your passion die, mine died for photography it is truly alive in binaural audio, I now manufacture binaural microphones 👍

[@marcoandres7475]

It is called « L'heure bleu » [blue hour]. Of course there are two: before dawn and after sunset. Today in California: blue hour is 05h58 - 06h33 and 17h42 - 18h17 [35m for both]. In contrast, golden [magic] hour is longer and just after sunrise and just before sunset.

[@The_IntrepidExplorer]

Fantastic work.

[@steverees123]

Cool project, great video!

[@FilmCameraLens]

Maaate, loved your video, music choise and of course the camera. Wish you all the best

[@enhimmelskdr0g]

Keep going on this development this is awesome!!

[@22crabz8]

Je regarde depuis la france hyper impressionnant et inspirant bravo 👏👏

[@justinmjohns]

I feel like i have to have this.... Do you we need to calibrate the camera when we get it or will the shipped models come ready to go when you pop a lens on?

[@SamCyanide]

Neato! Only critique would be to turn up the overall volume of the video. Overall the concept is very neat and its cool how customizable it is.

[@blacklion79]

Cool!

[@seventeendegree]

That's impressive! My current challenge is that I dig the look of large format photography but I'm only willing to handle something as heavy as a Pentacon Six or Pentax 67. Maybe there is a way to build a lens addon that compressed the image circle of a large format lens on a fresnel lens and than getting compressed and thrown at medium format film. I've seen similar things getting done with projection lenses. Maybe this could be an inspiration for one of your future videos :)

[@JL-sn1wn]

well done

[@2BeLikeChrist]

This is epic! Nice work!

[@brankobelfranin8815]

This is interesting, good luck young man

[@arandomhungarian1659]

Hey, I saw your reddit post and I am happy that more and more people are getting into film in Hungary. Subbed!

[@CzejenAndCodaj]

Hey this camera look so cool :3 Since couple of month i build my own DSLR 35 mm with waistlevel finder for m39 XD yeah hardest part is i have only 3 time now ;3

[@omarcoutinorodas2564]

Si beautiful!

[@loekybaltes]

Great photos i like the pano photos very muce whis you ole the best ,Peter from Thailand👍

[@zalantoth]

Thanks a lot!

[@SiggyPony]

Now thats neat :D home made medium format camera :)

[@derkarhu5079]

maybe...crazy...build a 2nd camera that stacks on the first one, but with ground glass...kens mount slides between camera bodies, with interlocked 'dark slide'...then, V2.0, add focusing to the movable section. v2.2 add tilt to lens mount, v2.3 add shift; -) still all 3d printed, a bit bigger, but infinitely usable, like a real large format camera, but maybe less 'fiddly'...Alles bestens in 2023

[@2252269]

Szia Zalan! A konyhai kotenyekre van ahol azt irjak "don't expect miracles'. A Te esetedben nem igy van. It's a miracle. Udv. Kecskemetrol, Istvan

[@zalantoth]

Üdv! Nagyon szépen köszönöm! Az én esetemben inkább a "Vigyázz apa főz" felirat volt, gondoltam vicces lenne ezt így hagyni a videóban.

[@selishots]

Came from Reddit! This is so cool! Keep up the good work

[@zalantoth]

Thanks!

[@camerafusion]

WOW!!! I’ll take one!

[@ziggyvillavicen6213]

I only use my A7iii, so seeing something like this is quite something.

[@zalantoth]

Well, this camera takes a 'tiny bit' bigger photo than a full frame. But imagine if I had used a 35mm film roll, not a 120...the aspect ration would have been 170:24.

[@Gosk]

Good work! Would love to shoot on this thing

[@princessrashidart]

Thanks! You made my day!

[@isofilmy]

Great project, love the gas station image. Just getting into medium format. Will keep an eye on this project

[@zalantoth]

Thanks! I knew the gas station shot will look cool, it always does.

[@corwingarber]

this is lit brother

[@kylebrandson267]

Finally we can have xpan at home

[@Petersonstudios]

Gratulálok! ;)

[@2071photo]

regardless of initial results, its very promising and this video is well done ^_^

[@fnsniper4280]

Ismerős ez a stílus😁

[@LaszloGalloVideos]

hali, jo lett a cucc, keresot hasznalsz hozza? a szines e6 v c41? en is epitettem jopar eve egy hasonlo gepet (videoim kozt ott van), az 6x9-es. keszitettem egy 617-est is, igaz azt mar szetbomtottam. a kazijat 127-es vagasara hasznalom (4x4).

[@zalantoth]

Hello! Külön keresőt nem használok, de androidra találtam egy alkalmazást, Magic View finder, tökéletesen lehet használni. A film az C41.

[@pastasuta]

So, the distance between the lens and the paper is the same distance at which the lens should stand in relation to the film. Did I get it right?

[@zalantoth]

Yes. This is called flange focal lenght, the distance between the mounting and the film plane.

[@pastasuta]

@@zalantoth Thanks a lot!

[@serhiirudenko6183]

Home development a color film is another level congfu. I only do stand development for the black and white film. It's really easy and I don't even care about the temperature. Btw is it possible to do a stand development of color film?

[@zalantoth]

Yes, it's possible. Tere are actually many videos about it on youtube. I watched one a few weeks ago.

[@dmytroyehorov2905]

Cool idea! Hope Kickstarter will work in Hungary! As well as Ukraine, but for this I have less hope

[@michaelrobertson8882]

Brother you should try to get a job on the Ricoh/Pentax team that's starting from scratch building 3 new film cameras.

[@zalantoth]

That would actually be amazing, but I don't think they would hire a 17 year old from this far away.

[@michaelrobertson8882]

They said that they need young talent... nothing beats a failure but a try...go for it...

[@zalantoth]

Oh, they really said that? Where can I apply, but for real.

[@michaelrobertson8882]

I would start with Ricoh imaging. Look for a way to apply...you may have to do a deep dive. And also start with watching the video they put out about the subject. They talk about a lot of the older generation has retired.. and they need young people to pick up and carry the torch so to speak...

[@michaelrobertson8882]

Let us know how it goes...

[@GrainOnTheGo]

I don't think the link for the Etsy is working.

[@zalantoth]

Thanks for letting me know that! I changed the link, hopefully, it works now.

[@GrainOnTheGo]

@@zalantoth thanks!

[@diegopendinorodriguez4829]

What lenses do you used?

[@zalantoth]

I used a Schneider Symmar S 150mm f/5.6 LF lens. Since then I made it compatible with many LF lenses.

[@FretAndForget]

I can always count on camera-foccused channels to make videos that just look. so. good :)

[@bigmike3189]

can i get the file please

[@HunterW.Photography]

i would pay $300 for that camera you described any day lol, what a price.

[@zalantoth]

A few weeks...

[@blazerbarrel2]

Much to remember , practice many times until you are on auto pilot .

[@hallopatif]

What's the song on the montage scene?

[@zalantoth]

It's from breaking bad. Uh by Fujiya & Miyagi

[@hallopatif]

@@zalantoth original scene is pretty good but your montage is amazing. I loved it.

[@maxwellwellmax878]

Wait! does your Mom know you are building a multimillion dollar camera empire???????????????????? J/K 😄 Amazing job Z!.

[@alexaska2010]

It´s that city Budapest?

[@zalantoth]

No, It's Győr, a hundred km away from Budapest.

[@terrywbreedlove]

I have a Nikkor 65mm lens I wonder how that would be.

[@zalantoth]

I mean I can make cone for that lens. It would surely produce some wide photos.

[@terrywbreedlove]

@@zalantoth We might have to talk about making one in a couple weeks.

[@zalantoth]

@@terrywbreedlove Sure! I'm always here.