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    Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    Hello all,

    My name is Chris Breitenstein and I am wondering if anyone knows of a store on the west coast that sells 8x10 cameras. I am specifically looking for either a Shen Hao or a Tachihara. I know that badger graphic deals both of these cameras, but I would like to try the camera both buying it. Plus Badger is nearly 2k miles away. I am in Tucson Arizona , and need to replace my 8x10 made nearly a century ago!!!

    Thank you for any help you can give.

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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    Quote Originally Posted by Christopher Breitenstein View Post
    Hello all,

    My name is Chris Breitenstein and I am wondering if anyone knows of a store on the west coast that sells 8x10 cameras. I am specifically looking for either a Shen Hao or a Tachihara. I know that badger graphic deals both of these cameras, but I would like to try the camera both buying it. Plus Badger is nearly 2k miles away. I am in Tucson Arizona , and need to replace my 8x10 made nearly a century ago!!!

    Thank you for any help you can give.

    Yours:
    Photomark in Phoenix
    Samy's Camera LA
    View Camera Store Phoenix
    Bear Images Palo Alto
    Keeble & Shuchat Palo Aloto
    Glazers Seattle
    OpTechs Seattle

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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    I'd add Ballard Camera (Seattle) to that list -- they had a (single, used) 8x10 view camera on a high shelf last time I was there; it'd been there for several years at that point, but I lacked money to buy it; it might well be there still (and it only costs a phone call to find out). Not sure what brand it was -- might have been a 'dorff, but I never had them take it down (or I've had *had* to try to find the money)...
    If a contact print at arm's length is too small to see, you need a bigger camera. :D

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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Salomon - HP Marketing View Post
    Photomark in Phoenix
    Samy's Camera LA
    View Camera Store Phoenix
    Bear Images Palo Alto
    Keeble & Shuchat Palo Aloto
    Glazers Seattle
    OpTechs Seattle
    OpTechs has went totally high end digital.

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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    Your best bet locally to try out all those cameras (and a few others too!) is View Camera Store. They may not have the Shen-Hao 8x10 in stock - almost nobody stocks it domestically. Also, WHICH Shen-Hao 8x10 are you looking at? the FCL, or the HZX? More folks stock the FCL, which is a double-extension camera. Same with the Tachihara - double or triple extension? The one most often kept in stock is the double-extension one.

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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    The HZX isn't made any more -(

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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    And the FCL is triple extension, albeit a-la the Dick Philips design at the rear
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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    Why not try Fred Newman at The View Camera Store in Phoenix/Scottsdale?

    (http://www.viewcamerastore.com/)
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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    Call Rod at Photomark 602-244-1133 (I have that number memorized). They sell lots of new Arca's in particular. I was there Thursday and used they had a 8x10 Cambo green monster, a couple 4x5 and 8x10 studio monorails (Horseman, Linhof Kardan, Cambo), a 4x5/5x7/8x10 Rittreck, and probably six others I've forgotten. No wooden fields right now, but I saw a 8x10 Deardorff and Wisner there within the past year.
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    Re: Places to purchase an 8x10 on the west coast

    The HZX 810 AT II is still listed on the Shen-Hao website. Also, it is listed as having 800mm of bellows, whereas the FCL is 680mm.

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