It interests me, being a Graflex nut, how many folks are using them. My minimalist kit is a 4X5 Pre Anniversary Speed Graphic with 135 Tessar or a 135 Eurynar. It is housed in a small aluminum box with 6 film holders, a set of series VI filters, a magnifying glass and a lens hood. Very compact, about 6X8X12, and light. I always carry an old lightweight tripod in the car and one in the van.
Mine is an Anniversary Speed Graphic with an iris lens board, and a pocket-full of lenses: 3 1/4" "Optimus Portable", 135mm Doppel-Amatar, 16,5cm Dagor, and a caskt set to fill out the gaps.
Bush Pressman, 135 Sironar-N, 2 Grafmatics, Gossen Digital-Pro (or Weston IV), hood and filters, Hasselblad chimney finder. Gitzo 2558 CF tripod. (Use rangefinder)
If possible add: 90/8 Nikon, 240/9 Fuji, couple of regular holders, darkcloth, in a Photoflex bag with waist belt.
Travel LF: All carried in a Domke 803J satchel----Voigtlander Vag 9X12 with adapted lenses: 90/6.8 Angulon, 150/6.3 Fuji plus hoods, accessory finders, pocket rangefinder, yellow & polarizing filters, Gossen Digital-Pro, and 5 to 7 holders, Leica table top tripod with smallest Really Light Stuff ball head.
Horseman FA
Rodenstock 135 Sironar -folds in camera
Gitzo 1227 cf tripod w. RRS BH-40 head
Readyload or Quickload
Nice lightweight, compact,easy to hike with.
Tachihara 810HD triple extension view camera, 121/8 Super Angulon, 300/5.6 Fujinon W, 720/16 Landscape Achromat in Copal#3, 5 film holders, and all the other stuff. It is just not worth bustin' myself carrying a 8x10 up a mountain just to find the perfect subject for the lens I didn't bring.
Photography:first utterance. Sir John Herschel, 14 March 1839 at the Royal Society. "...Photography or the application of the Chemical rays of light to the purpose of pictorial representation,..".
speed graphic ( pacemaker )
in its fiber box
with a fist full of film holders,
10 + 15 " tele optar barrels,
2 meniscus, 135 linhof select and a 127 tominon (on camera)
I used to carry much more gear, but now I usually carry a minimalist kit.
8x10:
Kodak Master
450/9 Nikkor M or 19" Red Dot Artar
240/9 Germinar W as a second lens
Ries tripod
a few film holders with Efke PL100 or TMax 400
4x5:
Chamonix
240/9 Germinar W
150/9 Germinar W as a second lens
old Bogen with Acratech head
either Velvia Quickloads or a few film holders with Efke PL100 or TMax 400
A 5x7 Korona with an 8.5" Ilex Paragon lens. A Berlebach 2024 tripod and six film holders. I sling the camera and tripod over my shoulder and carry the film holders and my meter in a fanny pack and all the kids in Fairfax say, "There goes that crazy old man again. Hasn't he ever heard of digital?"
In one small 35 mm shoulder bag: Crown Graphic, 135mm Symmar-s, 90mm Angulon, 210mm Repro-Claron. Weston Master V. 2 Grafmatics.
I guess if I wanted to get really minimalistic, I would go with my pre Anniversary 3X4 Speed Graphic with the 135 Eurynar, a 16 sheet bag mag and a light meter, of course. I think that's as minimal as it gets.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks