Yes, I put his design right it up there with the "Stradavarius" style violin, the "Torres" style classical guitar, the Fender Stratocaster and the Dumble Amplifier.
Yes, I put his design right it up there with the "Stradavarius" style violin, the "Torres" style classical guitar, the Fender Stratocaster and the Dumble Amplifier.
Hey, guys. Shenhao has posted a new 617. Care to comment?
Stephen
Badger Graphics just listed the Shen Hao TFC810A non-folding wide-angle 8x10 camera. Same price as the FCL810-A
Lots of thoughts on this at Yahoo's 6x17 forum...Originally Posted by slungshot
Lachlan.
How wide does it go? The FCL already goes wider then any 8x10 lens. I guess the new one sets up quicker.
Badger lists the specs. for the TFC810A. Minimum extension is 85mm. Probably with the wide angle bellows.
The shortest lens that I own that will cover 8X10 is the Nikkor f8 120SW. It barely covers 8X10.
By closing down and carefully centering the lens, I can avoid vignetting.
The FCL with the bag bellows goes wider IIRC. With the Sinar recessed board I think it less then 60mm ground glass to back of lensboard.
Nick,
It would definitely be possible to move the lens closer to the ground glass using a bag bellows and a recessed lens board.
If I use a bag bellows along with a combination of base and axis tilt on the front standard of my 8X10 Canham Traditional, I can touch the the ground glass with the rear of the lens.
However, it would still be difficult to find a lens shorter than 110- 120mm that will cover the 8x10 format without vignetting.
So why would you want to go wider?
I don't. I'm curious what the point of the wide angle version of the camera is. The current camera goes just as wide if not wider. So what's gained from the wide angled model?
The TFC810A is designed to be used mainly for architectural photography. It's non-folding design makes for faster set ups and more accurate parallelism between the front and rear standards.
Over one and a half pounds lighter than the folding model.
140mm of front rise and fall compared to the 125mm on the folding model.
It seems like Shen Hao, in China is attempting to compete head-to-head with Ebony, in Japan.
Having owned an used cameras from both manufactures, I believe that Ebony definitely wins on quality, but Shen Hao makes great cameras for the price.
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