Humping 8x10 more than 100 feet from the car

[E. von Hoegh]

My mind is wandering this week. Lately, I've been thinking alot about an 8x10 field camera...

I wonder how many of you carry an 8x10 field camera into the field. How many lenses do you carry? It seems to me that the bigger the format, the fewer lenes one needs/carries. Is that reality?

I recently handled (fondled?) a 240mm Sironar-N in copal #3...does anybody actually carry one of these things? It seems huge!

What pack or...box or mule do you use to hump your stuff?

I use a Deardorff V8. I carry it in a Kelty frame pack, and use a Camera Eqipment Co. 13 pound tripod (it will hold ME up). Usually two lenses, a 9 1/2" Dagor and a 14" GD Dagor. Four filmholders. Water and snacks. Miscellaneous stuff brings the weight to a bit over 50 pounds. I've done 20 miles in a day with this gear.

[Walter Calahan]

Get a three-wheeled jogging baby stroller used off eBay.

I put all my 8x10 gear on it to roll it to the scene. I'm 6'7" tall and hate a sore back.

[Keith Pitman]

Get a three-wheeled jogging baby stroller used off eBay.

I put all my 8x10 gear on it to roll it to the scene. I'm 6'7" tall and hate a sore back.

I have a feeling this suggestion has been made before . . . maybe more than once!!!

[Walter Calahan]

I've suggested the stroller many many times, but not everyone is reading my posts, forcing me to repeat the same advice over and over again. Grin.

[Vaughn]

I've suggested the stroller many many times, but not everyone is reading my posts, forcing me to repeat the same advice over and over again. Grin.

But no stroller can go where I usually want to go -- lifting the stroller over rocks and fallen trees (especially when they are 10 feet or more in diameter) would be a little much. I use to push my triplet boys in a stroller-made-for-three up creeks and on some pretty interesting trails, so I know a stroller's limitations!LOL!

Plus wheeled contraptions of any type are not allowed in official wilderness areas in the USA.

Vaughn

[Jim Galli]

YOUR mind is wandering........LOL? I looked at the title and thought to myself 'close to the car?? if I hump an 8X10 it's going to be.............oh well. It's those damn shit-zu's that my wife had to have. They hump everything.

[Walter Calahan]

Not even a Hummer can travel over a 10-foot fallen tree!

One must accept limits.

The original thread was about getting one's gear more than 100-feet from the car, not leaping tall buildings at a single bound. HA!

[Daniel_Buck]

my tachihara 8x10 with 2 lenses and 4 holders (and water, meter, cloth, cable release and filters) I would take for day hikes, probably 4-6 miles or so. Doing the same with the Ritter 8x10, lighter which leaves me more room for water, or just makes the load lighter.

[Ole Tjugen]

10x8" Gandolfi Traditional, six holders, and four lenses on lens boards all fit nicely in a Lowepro AW Trekker. The weight is noticeable, but not bothersome (the lenses are a 121mm Super Angulon, a 165mm Angulon, a 240/420mm Symmar Convertible, and a 210mm f:6.8 Angulon).

[Kevin Klazek]

I carry my V8 Dorff, and Fuji 240A, 300C and 450C plus pentax spot in a Lowepro Computrekker AW. I sling 3 or 4 holders in a laptop shoulder bag, then carry or sling my Berlebach pod. The Fuji lens set is very light and even at that I usually only take 2 lenses out at a time. I do trek with this all year round.