Works fine with my 7# Technika and long, heavy lenses. Also with the Gandolfi 5x7 and 15" lens. Wouldn't use it for 8x10, though.
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Works fine with my 7# Technika and long, heavy lenses. Also with the Gandolfi 5x7 and 15" lens. Wouldn't use it for 8x10, though.
Go to it, if you're idea of good photography is to make pictures like Fred Picker.
Consider the 15" Tele-Raptar. It easily covers 5x7 so there's plenty of room for movements on 4x5, and it's cheap, cheap, cheap.
It takes one to know one, Domenico.
This is really stupid!
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Beware used Gandolfi cameras advertised as 5x7 which are really "half- plate" models. Much older and worth only about half as much.
You are comparing apples with oranges. There are many superb 35mm enlargements which can't be visually distinguished from 8x10 contact prints.
Actually, for best results with a 50mm lens, there is a recessed board.