best "lightweight" 8x10 camera in windy condition ?

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toyo II, Arca Fline, Sinar Norma, phillips compact2... ?

i have played in windy conditions with a canham (wood), and i'm less than satisfied...

[Andrew O'Neill]

I have a Canham 8x10 lightweight and it is not stable until you put a stabilizer kit on it...but then there is all that bellows to contend with to with long lenses. I usually don't shoot in wind as there doesn't seem to be much in the wee hours of the morning or evening.

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stabilizer kit ?

[Walter Calahan]

All 8x10 cameras will be sails in windy conditions. Shooting into the wind helps, or to the back of the camera. Shooting with short glass and a short bellows is also helpful. Sometime shielding the camera with your car, truck, umbrella, wall, large tree, etc., helps. What you really need is a heavy weight camera, that is extremely ridged, with stiff bellows, locked down on a large tripod, using high shutter speeds. Good luck.

[paul stimac]

Wehman 8x10 - http://www.wehmancamera.com/camera.html
It's about as stable as a Calumet C-1 but w/o the weight.

[Bill_1856]

Like Military Intelligence, an oxymoron.

[scott_6029]

A large golf umbrella

[Alan Davenport]

Since it's an 8x10 that we're talking about, I recommend (for windy conditions) a nice pint of chocolate stout, a leather armchair and a fire.

[Don Hutton]

Wehman 8x10 - http://www.wehmancamera.com/camera.html
It's about as stable as a Calumet C-1 but w/o the weight.

I owned a Wehman for about a month - sorry - there is no way that it is a stable camera. The single tripod hole is a major design flaw in my opinion. There is basically no "stable" way to use a lens of 450mm or more: once the front standard goes onto the "clamshell" - the front of the camera becomes cantilevered from the tripod mount and it's stability is simply appaling - unusable in any conditions other than perfect without an array of "stabilizer" help, such as a monopod or arm to help the front "unsupported"section. It may have 30 inches of bellows or whatever, but only the first 15 or so are really useable in the field. I sold it ASAP.

I have a Phillips compact II which really is surprisingly stable. The design allows less movement in the front of the camera than other designs which helps. I presume a Shen Hao FL810 which uses pretty much the same idea would also be pretty stable, but I haven't actually seen one in the flesh; only pics from proud owners and it certainly does look like the screaming "buy" in the 8x10s available. Obviously, when you get bellows racked out, as has been pointed out elsewhere, it's a big sail...

[Kevin Crisp]

I'm with Scott on this. I read the obvious when you think about it but brilliant idea of carrying a golf umbrella (on this forum) and tried it and it really does the trick.