Most Rigid 8x10 Field Camera

[archivue]

You have to make do with front focus, but that's no hardship outdoors.

you can focus with the back also !

[audioexcels]

Hmmm. Perhaps an Arca Swiss. Ditched the Ebony SV 45TE for an Arca Swiss, partially because of the rigidity factor. The difference was siginificant.

Arca Monolith newest series should be pretty brutal for rigidity

[Michael Kadillak]

As far as rigidity goes nothing beats a Linhof color Karden on the heavy pan/tilt head supported by a Linhof heavy duty tripod for those unique situations when necessary. I don't relish the thought of having to carry my Karden set up far from the truck, but the Germans do not compromise much when it comes to a solid platform for making photographs. I have used it in the field no problem so I guess it does qualify in this regard. Anyone that has used one of these cameras knows what I am talkng about.

Cheers!

[Rick Moore]

Oh, and any view camera can act like a sail if there is any wind. Especially cross wind moving the bellows. The most expensive, ridged camera will move.

You are exactly right. It seems to be a corollary of Murphy's law that the wind speed increases proportionately to bellows extension. I find using an umbrella to block the wind from striking the bellows adds more stability to my Canham 8x10 than other improvement I could make.

Wooden tripods, at least good ones like Ries, can dampen vibrations better than metal or carbon fibre tripods.

[jesskramer]

My vote goes to the Calumet C1

Jesse

[Ron Marshall]

Sinar P, on the Sinar pan tilt head.