Well, I wound up coming in to ownership of a F&S 7x17 in pretty decent shape. Somehow I came up with a winning bid for this camera on a certain auction site. Not sure how THAT happened, but it's good. Other than getting ready to order some lens boards from Richard Ritter, things are pretty complete, film holders and all. I'm looking forward to working with this format. The camera itself is a good deal lighter than I would have expected.
I'm in the process of shopping around for lenses, and may have a line on a 270mm Computar. I would like to have a longer lens as a companion to this. With 450mm of bellows draw from published specs, my take is that the longest lens I could practically use for general photography would be 80% of the available bellows draw, or 420mm. Following up on this, I would think that something like a 16 1/4 in Red Dot Artar would likely work, and offer good coverage, if I've figured this correctly. If I've overlooked anything on figuring the largest usable lens on this camera, feedback is welcome.
I've tried placing the camera on a larger Bogen tripod that I've had for a while, but the hexagonal quick release plate doesn't seem to anchor the camera. Part of this would seem to be due to the minimal contact area between the bed and the adapter. I'd be interested to find out how others have dealt with this.
Thanks,
Ed
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