I've done a lot of shooting for sailing and kayking magazines both aboard our Hallberg Rassey 31 and aboard various other boats from 11 to 56 feet long. Though I love large format, my advice is to...
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I've done a lot of shooting for sailing and kayking magazines both aboard our Hallberg Rassey 31 and aboard various other boats from 11 to 56 feet long. Though I love large format, my advice is to...
I also use a Wista SP. I think the low hole position simply allows a little fall that would be impossible with a centered hole. I leave my lens board raised with the hole centered; it does close up...
I just went through this same agony over my new field camera (I shoot landscape and marine senics and I travel a great deal with my camera). After trying both a Toyo and a Linhof for a few days (and...
I found, and bought, an odd stainless steel developing tank at a swap meet. It l ooks like an over-grown two-reel roll film tank, but the "reel" actually holds 1 2 sheets of 4x5 film in a series of...
I bought an SP after trying both a Linhof Technica and Toyo AX. I think that thh e SP is far superior to the Toyo in all regards; more movments, smother, easier to use. It's every bit as well made...
Survey tripods (called "legs" by surveyors) use a huge, 5/8" I think, hollow bol t -- not a normal tripod mount. It's easy to replace the bolt though. I ran the survey dept. for a large civil...