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'''Bender Photographic''' was a maker of [[view camera]]s based in Leavenworth, Washington. Until 2008 it made camera kits for [[large format]] cameras. According to an archive of the earlier company website<ref>[http://www.jaybender.com/BPH/ Bender Photographic] at [http://www.jaybender.com/main.htm JayBender.com]</ref>, its proprietor Jay Bender has retired from building view camera kits after 30 years, due to declining use of film cameras.
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'''Bender Photographic''' was a maker of [[view camera]]s based in Leavenworth, Washington. Until 2008 it made camera kits for [[large format]] cameras. According to an archive of the earlier company website<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120309113018/http://www.jaybender.com/BPH/ Bender Photographic] (archived) at [http://www.jaybender.com/main.htm JayBender.com]</ref>, its proprietor Jay Bender has retired from building view camera kits after 30 years, due to declining use of film cameras.
  
 
Bender also sold [[pinhole camera|pinholes]] precision-drilled in brass shim stock for makers of [[homemade pinhole camera]]s<REF>"Pinhole Pointers," January 1988 Popular Photography (Vol. 95, No. 1; footnote, pg. 53).</REF>.
 
Bender also sold [[pinhole camera|pinholes]] precision-drilled in brass shim stock for makers of [[homemade pinhole camera]]s<REF>"Pinhole Pointers," January 1988 Popular Photography (Vol. 95, No. 1; footnote, pg. 53).</REF>.

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Bender Photographic was a maker of view cameras based in Leavenworth, Washington. Until 2008 it made camera kits for large format cameras. According to an archive of the earlier company website[1], its proprietor Jay Bender has retired from building view camera kits after 30 years, due to declining use of film cameras.

Bender also sold pinholes precision-drilled in brass shim stock for makers of homemade pinhole cameras[2].

Cameras

pinhole camera kits

  • 4x5 Pinhole Camera

monorail camera kits

Notes

  1. Bender Photographic (archived) at JayBender.com
  2. "Pinhole Pointers," January 1988 Popular Photography (Vol. 95, No. 1; footnote, pg. 53).