Search:

Type: Posts; User: Robert999; Keyword(s):

Search: Search took 0.00 seconds.

  1. Re: What kind of fool would buy a half-plate camera?

    The camera doesn't have too many similarities, but the bookform holders DO seem quite similar to the ones that came with my WW I Gandolfi Universal half-plate, down to some of the brasswork pieces. ...
  2. Replies
    17
    Views
    9,194

    Re: Gandolfi half-plate camera...advice needed

    OUCH - I can see just what you mean...that platform looks like it will get me right in the neck, unless I manoeuvre around from the side or something. I will have to take that into account when I...
  3. Replies
    17
    Views
    9,194

    Re: Gandolfi half-plate camera...advice needed

    Ernest,
    Thank you very much for your detailed explanation and helping my education in LF.

    Do the square bellows help at all in using wide angle lenses?

    Robert
  4. Replies
    17
    Views
    9,194

    Re: Gandolfi half-plate camera...advice needed

    Alex,
    Thank you for helping me identify it! You are right, it does have a square cornered bellows.

    I checked for a light leak in the shop, and couldn't find anything, but you never really know...
  5. Replies
    17
    Views
    9,194

    Re: Gandolfi half-plate camera...advice needed

    Thank you ALL for your responses...I went back today after work, and one of the managers had brought in her Manfrotto 410 head for me to try with it (I have a set of 055 legs, and the original...
  6. Replies
    17
    Views
    9,194

    Gandolfi half-plate camera...advice needed

    I am a newcomer to LF, and I am on the waiting list for a Chamonix 45, but have missed out the August shipment and am on the alternate list...we will see. Could be December...

    While poking around...
Results 1 to 6 of 6