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Adorama markets a Sinar to Technika adapter for $159.

http://www.adorama.com/VWLBAS.html

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Leveling those verticals really does make a dramatic difference in this shot. The geometric shapes formed by the wires and awning really start to show through. Originally I thought more of top...

Keeping the back level as others suggested and maybe using some vertical shift to take in more of the power lines above and a little less of the street below would make this shot stronger. The power...

Also take a look at Keh.com's used lenses. They've got quite a bit available right now in the 210mm range at quite resonable prices.

From a price standpoint the first place I'd start looking is at used Calumet Caltar II N's. New Calumet sells both the Caltar II N and Rodenstock Apo Sironar N for the same price at $699- which is...

A Nikon 200mm M f8 would fit. Copal O, 180g and only 43mm in length. Of course you have to stop down considerably to get the full covering power with this lens.

Also a Fujinon A 240mm f9 may be...

I've never had a problem with my huge Arca lensboards, because with my 65mm I use the Arca Deep Recessed boards, which at 60mm are deeper than anything you'll find on a small lensboard camera. I can...

You might want to consider the Fuji 250mm f6.7 (not the 6.3). It's got more coverage at 399mm and weighs alot less than the Rodenstock. Of course they were discontinued in 1990 so you might have to...

Here is Richard Ilomaki's review of the 8x10 shen-hao

There's some specs and photo listed here:

http://www.shen-hao.com/03.htm

and more detailed specs translated from French here
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Another big scam on Ebay is the Toyo 3.x Ground Glass focusing Loupe ($39.95 at B&H Photo retail) which every two weeks gets sold on Ebay for 90% of its retail cost. One is currently being...

This is a late response and I don't know if its doing anyone any good but for the record I am glad to hear I'm not the only person whose had the crazy idea of adapting a Cambo reflex viewer to a...

The reason to use the zone system is to produce an ideal negative; not acceptable negative, but one that mets your previsualisation of how of how the scene should be; to extend (compact) the...

I used to use old Calumet CC400's while attending school at University of Illinois-Chicago, and my experience with them was frustrating at best. They tended not to lock down very well on axis ...