I came across Giovanni Savino’s blog post today detailing the Rilex press camera – a camera I’ve never even heard of until now. \u00a0Made from polished cast aluminum and machined parts, it’s a neat little camera for sure and simply amazing that a husband and wife team built over 800 of them on their own perhaps in their evenings. \u00a0This takes 2.25 by 3.25 sheet film (6×9 ?). \u00a0 \u00a0I have a Grafmatic 6 sheet holder that I bought for my Linhof Tech 70 that would probably work with Giovanni’s Rilex.<\/p>\n
Read his post here:\u00a0http:\/\/giovannisavinophotography.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/the-rilex-a-little-story-about-a-tiny-american-camera\/<\/a><\/p>\n And there are few more pictures of a model B here on Worthpoint<\/a>\u00a0showing the back and sides. \u00a0The back plane appears to be cast and polished. \u00a0It also looks like the front rails can be extended with extensions that screw in.<\/p>\n I was wondering if such a small production camera could be successfully built and sold today, but then it dawned on me – of course it could and it would probably be easier now than then thanks to kickstarter and other online venues. \u00a0So what are you waiting for!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came across Giovanni Savino’s blog post today detailing the Rilex press camera – a camera I’ve never even heard of until now. \u00a0Made from polished cast aluminum and machined parts, it’s a neat little camera for sure and simply amazing that a husband and wife team built over 800 of them on their own perhaps in their evenings. \u00a0This takes 2.25 by 3.25 sheet film (6×9 ?). \u00a0 \u00a0I have a Grafmatic 6 sheet holder that I bought forRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,7,22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-made","category-film","category-medium-format","category-rare-cameras"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rilex-Jan-15-2015-BL-1C-001.jpg?fit=1000%2C795&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}