jaedog
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Hi everyone! This is my first post on this forum and any forum for anything ever at all, so I hope I'm going about this properly. I'm starting my very first camera build project as gift for my significant other this holiday season, and as I'm learning more and more through the research I can conduct on my own through the internet I'm finding myself with more and more questions that cant be answered by cut and dry videos and articles so I thought I would take the more interactive route and try to make a forum post! I am building a medium format camera based off of the Goodman Zone which uses a Mamiya RB67 Pro S film back and a Mamiya 65mm lens. My plan is to build an aluminum box body that connects these components using my capabilities in CNC machining. The question I have right now is how to determine the proper distance to space the lens from the film, and as far as I know this is the only critical geometry of the body besides of course the mounting for the lens and back. I was excited to learn this number had a name and is referred to as the Focal Flange Distance, but I still don't know how to determine what that distance is. Any advice is appreciated, I've got almost 8 years of experience building all sorts of things but I'm realizing quickly that a camera is a totally different creature and I am in way over my head. Will definitely be sharing media and documentation of the build if it all pans out.
Thanks if you've read to this point and I hope you're all well!
Thanks if you've read to this point and I hope you're all well!