Show off your Large Format camera!

[Ash]

Emil, do you know who has more stuff? You or Ole?

[Curt]

Did some design/build cheating and built the camera around the backs used on my Calumet C-1. So I can go vertical or horizontal, 4x5 or 5x7 with the reducing backs. And old laptop bags are ideal for carrying 8x10 holders in the field.

If you build another you could make the box big enough to hold the film holders for traveling to and from the location. From what I see it's a great use for the C1 backs. I have a Calumet C1 with the 8x10 and 5x7 backs. It would be nice to just carry the film holders and a camera box for a change and leave the massive mechanical behind. Nice work.

Curt

[Emil Schildt]

Emil, do you know who has more stuff? You or Ole?

I honestly don't know - I suspect he has a lot...

But I am sure many in here has much more.. and much, much more expensive stuff...

I also have more (my Sinar cameras - graflex - 135mm cameras and lenses..)

Apart from this I also have some beautiful assecories from way back in time..

[Robert Hughes]

Yikes! That photo is the first one that pops up when you Google: "Gear Acquisition Syndrome".

[Andrew Plume]

thanks all

Here I am joining the meeting...

Emil - how about taking us through them - say just the cameras with the lenses attached..................

andrew

[Ole Tjugen]

Emil, do you know who has more stuff? You or Ole?

Emil has more. I've been downsizing instead of upsizing, after I discovered that 30x40cm was too big to carry - and a babystroller just won't work in these parts of the world! So my biggest camera is 24x30cm, going down (LF and plate cameras only) to 6x4.5cm.

Lenses - I think Emil has more big stuff. I may have more small lenses, and casket sets...

[Emil Schildt]

Emil - how about taking us through them - say just the cameras with the lenses attached..................

andrew

will do - preparing an image as we speak...

[Greg Y]

Gandolfi is certainly a hard act to follow...
'40s Deardorff w/ seldom used 4x5 reducing back & Fuji 450 c

[Emil Schildt]

so - here's the picture (I forgot to change the image of me to a naked girl, sorry...) where I have tried to put names on some of the stuff...(by memory - the stuff is still in my studio....)

Can be hard to read, so a much bigger version is located here:

http://www.emilschildt.com/cameracolletion.htm

[Heespharm]

Wow compared to that my camera collection/fetish seems sane... Beautiful setup emil