Best to consider the total weight of your kit. The camera is the biggest piece, but the weight of the other parts can add up without your noticing.
Best to consider the total weight of your kit. The camera is the biggest piece, but the weight of the other parts can add up without your noticing.
I prefer some weight for handheld.
I only shoot my Travelwide handheld, but add a heavy Horseman QR base.
My Fotoman 6X17 is heavy and I like that.
What I really like about both is I shoot by distance, not GG.
Tin Can
There is also the Printex.Originally Posted by Randy Moe
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I found the 4X5 Printex to very heavy and painful to handhold and I like heavy. Somebody here bought it from the actual owner when I teamed them.There is also the Printex.
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What I did like was the really simple RF single arm to Kalart Rangefinder, which is a doddle to adjust.
A Speed is also heavy but has better ways to hold it, which I didn't understand until I read the Navy Speed Graflex manual.
Tin Can
Also Toho FC45x.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Stripped down Crown Graphic with 127mm Ektar. Mine weighs 3lbs, can be hand held, and the investment is so low I don’t worry about exposure to the elements. Fits in a lunch cooler bag with shoulder strap.
Add a Slik Sprint travel tripod for a light weight companion for low light conditions.
Either the Toho or Gowland would be wretched in wind. The Horseman FA is a beautifully made technical camera that can be
handheld, suitable for moderate-wide to long-normal focal lengths. But I'd rather have (and do use) a 125 Fuji W that takes small 52mm filters rather than the later CMW which requires 67mm and is unnecessarily bulkier.
Last edited by Drew Wiley; 16-Oct-2018 at 11:30.
Had a Gowland pocket view, found it too fiddley, not stable at al. Had the change to buy a rare 4*5 Galvin, much sturdier, easy to set up, compact and light weigth. You have to adapt to the long extra rail you have to add for lenses longer than 90mm. My set: 90mm TopCor (just covers 4*5), 150 and 210 G-Clarons. A light weigth Amazon Tripod makes a surprisingly sturdy combination ( considering that tripod). It's my travel set.
Good luck,
Cor
What you want is a Chamonix Saber. It was designed around the 120mm apo-symmar, a fabulous lens. They are hard to come by, but you could acquire one for <$2k I'd think. I have one but don't want to sell it. Easily the lightest/most compact 4x5 I have ever seen. http://chamonixviewcamera.com/saber.html
You can make a mod for the Travelwide to work with longer lenses. This is really lightweight.
http://www.welshruins.co.uk/travelwi...fication-125mm
https://web.archive.org/web/20180326...fication-125mm
Search google: travelwide 125mm
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