Originally Posted by
Jim Jones
A 1957 video showed Ansel Adams loading this kit into an ancient 8-passenger Cadillac limousine with a 5x9 platform on the top:
1 8x10 view camera with 20 holders and 4 lenses: Cooke convertable, 10" Wide Field Ektar, 9" Dagor, 6.75 wide angle Wollansak
7x17 special panoramic camera with five holders & 13.5" Protar lens
4x5 view camera (Calumet?) with six lenses: 12" Voigtlander Collinear in Compound shutter, 8.5" Apo-Lanthar, 9.5" f/9 C. P. Goertz Am. Opt. Co. Apo-Artar in Ilex Synchro shutter, 9.25" Apo Tessar, 4" Wide Field Ektar, Dallmeyer 8-on telephoto
Hassleblad camera with 38, 60, 80, 135, and 200mm lenses
Contaflex 35mm camera outfit
Two Polaroid cameras
Filters for each camera: K1, K2, Minus Blue, G, X1, A, C5, B, F, 85B, 85C and light balancing series 81 & series 82
SEI exposure meter and two Weston meters
Two tripods; one light (Tiltall?), one heavy
Lens brush, Stop watch, level, thermometer, focusing magnifier, & focusing cloth
Heicolight strobe portrait outfit with 200' cable
Special storage box for film
Ancient Cadillac Eight passenger limousine with 5x9 platform on top
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