Wooden field cameras (some of which are still in use in some of these countries) raise fewer suspicions than all-metal black monorails, which can look like weap ons (I take my monorail standards off...
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Wooden field cameras (some of which are still in use in some of these countries) raise fewer suspicions than all-metal black monorails, which can look like weap ons (I take my monorail standards off...
Nope, none at all. I use this combo all the time (72mmXL, Sinar F2, W/A bellows) without problems. The "Superwide" bellows Sinar sells are necessary only with c ertain metering-probe configurations;...
Can anyone recommend a (good-enough-to-sell-prints) process for outputting digit al black-and-white print files? I'm looking for quality that will rival at least an excellent warmtone RC print (I...
You may want to directly contact some of the contributors to the "Horseman" sect ion of the Medium Format Digest, accessible via the www.photo.net/photo home pag e or directly at
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. . . or might think about it somewhere down the road in the future, be sure to pick up the November issue of Popular Photography (yes, Popular Photography!). T hey have a very good introduction to...
I'd go with the Toyo CX, which weighs 8 lbs. and is probably the sturdiest camer a listed yet in this thread. If Toyo/Mamiya stubbornly persists in making afford able 4x5's that people won't grow out...
The new Toyo 4x5 monorail (model name, anyone? I should've checked toyoview.com) seems much more capable and versatile than the Cadet and for not much more mone y (I think $600 street?). If you're...
I shoot Readyload (TMX 100) with the Kodak holder. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I s hoot 300-400 Readyloads per month and I don't know when I last had a failure. Ac tually, I do, but it failed...
Actually, in this respect the Sinar setup may be more precise and quicker than a double-tilt head; it doesn't take much of a turn on the rail-clamp knob to loos en up the monorail enough to pivot the...
I use the Sinar tripod head with the Sinar rail clamp (not the 2, although the o nly difference is strength, weight, and cost; the function's about the same).
I was choosing between the Gitzo 1370...
Re the roll-film part of the question:
To use roll-film in a view camera, you have two options: the slim C2N style, whi ch slides into the camera in front of the groundglass just like a 4x5...
I'm trying to find a practical bellows-style lens hood for mounting on the lense s of LF cameras. I'm considering the Lee that sells for about $100 (plus $40-70 for a lens thread adaptor ring); it's...
Time let its own criteria ("Influence over greatness") fail them in the Photogra phy category: critics and photographers will debate forever the "genius" of Alfr ed Steiglitz and Ansel Adams, but few...
Fernando,
Check Howard Bond's website, www.musicman.com/hb/hbmask.html
...A workshop with Howard would be ideal for you (he lists the schedule on his w ebsite), but if you're not in the U.S....
I've never made one, but I've bought several, in three different sizes, from Ste phen Shuart in PA, who has a full-page ad toward the back of most Shutterbugs. S S sells some bizarro stuff (his...
I know Phil Greenspun recommended the Sinar X to you over on photo.net, but chec k out the Sinar f2; it weighs and costs much less (it's 7.9 lbs. and $2495) and yet is a full Sinar, with all the good...
Uh, two exceptions to the "no great printers use condensers": Paul Caponigro use s a Durst condenser and Brett Weston used a variety of condensers--sometimes eve n a point source! (See article "The...
I'm wondering about whether there are downsides (besides weight and cost, of cou rse!) to using extra-large coverage lenses in cases where you don't need the cov erage.
Consider some 90mm options...
Boy, thanks a million for the tips, Gordon! I went straight to bhphotovideo's we b page to check it out (I hadn't seen it there before in the Large Format sectio n because they simply called it...
Does anyone in the U.S. have any RECENT experience with ArcaSwiss sales/tech.sup port/parts?
I ask because I'm in the market for my first 4x5 camera (I'm moving down from 8x 10 and 11x14, although...
You'd really be hard-pressed to go wrong with a current lens from any of the Big Four (Fuji, Nikkor, Rodenstock, and Schneider). ("Sinaron" and "Caltar"--aka "C alumet" are just Rodenstocks with a...