Show off your Large Format camera!

[Andrew Plume]

It will be fast at me this chamber. Who can used will share impressions.

B&J Rembrandt Portrait - I've one here used as a door stop - tank like built, minimal movements on the back only, short bellows but it has it's uses


andrew

[tgtaylor]

I have 4 Large Format cameras. Here's one:

[dsphotog]

Hi Tom, the R.O.B.O.S. looks nice, but I forgot what it stands for.... it also looks like you have analog music discs!

[tgtaylor]

Thanks David. Although I do not use this camera as much as the rest, it's a real pleasure setting it up and looking at it: Generally, it competes with what I am photographing!

ROBOS stands for "(R)adically (O)rientated (B)iaxel (O)perating (S)ystem and was designed to compete with the Sinar P. Even today it compares favorably with the P2.

Yes, those are vinyl (aka analogue) music discs in the background with an "old fashioned" turntable on top. When music went optical discs I didn't throw my albums out and replace them with CD's as a lot of people did. I simply stopped buying vinyl like everyone else but kept the albums and a good turntable and cartridge to play them with. Even today they sound great, thanks to the turntable and cartridge, and its kind of neat (and nostalgic!) to get up and flip the album while wiping the vinyl with a coated cloth to eliminate any dust.

[JamesFromSydney]

My Chamonix 45N-1, since sold. (I really should have kept it, damn!)



Here's the photo it took a few seconds before:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xamesm/5067608248/

[Sirius Glass]

My Chamonix 45N-1, since sold. (I really should have kept it, damn!)



Here's the photo it took a few seconds before:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xamesm/5067608248/

You should start a thread named "Show of your camera which you sold and you have been kicking yourself in the a$$ about ever since!"

Steve

[jb7]

I see Dan is giving away a lens like this for nothing over in the For Sale section...
here's a mounting suggestion-



And an excuse...



I didn't set out to make a Big Bertha, it just happened along the way.
I'd like to make a ULF camera at some point, and I'd like it to be able to take big old lenses.
There was a discussion here a few months ago, where the weights of these lenses was discussed.
It's difficult to gauge the heft of a big lens without actually handling one,
so when this one came up, I bought it as a surrogate.

It's a 36" Air Ministry Reconnaissance Lens, a telephoto, F/6.3, with a flange distance of around 650mm at infinity.

It's too big for my camera, so I did a quick and dirty adapter-

This is like ULF aversion therapy- it's like one of those realistic doll babies they give to teenagers, to put them off getting pregnant.
If I did make a ULF Portrait camera, it wouldn't go anywhere, it couldn't-
I had a look at a head and shoulders setup on 8x10, and the bellows draw was 800mm-
a bigger format would need even more-

So at least this thing has brought home some of the considerations involved in going extra large-

A few more pictures here-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joseph-...th/5181436643/

btw, that wooden bit is an 8x10 back- 305mm high-

[JamesFromSydney]

Shooting at dusk this afternoon (the white posts are for a cricket ground, for people from countries who don't know what that is :-)



Crown graphic special (1961) with a 210mm f/6.1 Xenar, shooting HP5+.

(Note: I would not recommend the Manfrotto head in the photo for LF work).

[Nana Sousa Dias]

Shooting at dusk this afternoon (the white posts are for a cricket ground, for people from countries who don't know what that is :-)



Crown graphic special (1961) with a 210mm f/6.1 Xenar, shooting HP5+.

(Note: I would not recommend the Manfrotto head in the photo for LF work).

I'm glad you explained about the white posts, I thought it was a modernist version of Stonehenge!

By the way, nice camera!

[Joe Forks]

This one is special to me..... not to mention I got it from one of our own forum masters. I can only hope a little bit of his mastery will rub off on me.

Just unpacked it, and just had to show it off....He said it came with the bragging rights

12x20 Folmer and Schwing