How Many LF Formats Do You Use/Own?

[Rafael Garcia]

5x7:
Gundlach Korona View
Asanuma King 1


4x5:
Calumet monorail
Asanuma King 1
Gundlach Korona View
Chamonix 045N
Wista 45SP
Anniversary Speed Graphic

[Rodney Polden]

8x10, 4x10 and 5x7 on the Century Universal.
4x5 and 6x9 on several 4x5 systems.

4x5 and 8x10 get the most use, but 4x10 via the Deardorff splitter is a very appealing format for some situations. I'm rediscovering 5x7 after a long gap (please tell me it's not really thirty years), and I'm enjoying the dynamism of the format ratio - it has a bit more pull or squeeze or something - after the squareness of 4x5/8x10.

No, I wouldn't say there's format confusion. After a time, all the un-needed information drops out of the aging brain (you know, home address, wedding anniversary, names of offspring etc.) and the available space gets stacked up with all the important stuff - coverage circles, lens focal length equivalents, available film stock.... Oh dear

[john collins]

Only one - 5X8 Chamonix

[butterflydream]

Mainly 5x7 & 4x10 Canham + 210mm Sironar N / 120mm Nikkor SW
For selected shots 8x10 Canham + 300mm Sironar N / 240mm Sironar N
For travel Chamonix 4x5 + 135mm Sironar N / 90mm Angulon

[raucousimages]

4X5 and 8X10 with a 5X7 back for the 8X10

[seabird]

How many different LF FORMATS do you own?

How many do you use regularly?

Do you suffer from format confusion?

1. One (4x5 Super Technika IV - or is it 5x4?)

2. One (see answer to 1. above)

3. Yes (see answer to 1. above)

Cheers from Oz

Carey Bird

http://members.iinet.net.au/~cbird/index.html

[jack_hui]

4x5
1) Toya 45AII
2) Toya 45CF
3) Horseman 45 Woodman

8x10
1) Tachi 2-extension
2) Horseman LE
3) Philips Explorer
4) Philips Compact II

[Salty]

4x5 most often
8x10 next
5x7 rarely (reducing back)

[redrockcoulee]

Four formats I own but two of them have not been used

4X5 Shen Hao and Crown Graphic the latter which I hope to have permission to sell next spring

5X7 Seneca Improved which has in the past been used mainly with the 4X5 reducing back but now have lots of holders and some film for 5X7

5X8 Rochester with no holders and no intention of shooting. It does have a brass lens that seems to be about 120mm and needs waterstops which of course I do not have.

Whole Plate Seneca Improved which is brand new to us. Have film on order and am looking for more holders. Eventually plan on selling the 5X7 and getting/making a 5X7 back for the whole plate camera.

So far a total of 4 lenses with shutters and one barrel lens for the three formats as well as a collection of pinholes for them. Also a 22 and 23 roll film backs for the 4X5 but most likely sell the 22 as bought into a Hasselblad system and don't need both.

No confusion here as it is very easy to tell the difference between the brown wood of the Shen Hao and the black whole plate camera plus they do have their name plates on them just in case I am uncertain. Plus there is the size difference.

As my wife shoots occasionally does that half or double us in the stats ? If it was just me I most likely would have sold the 5X7 years ago and not bought the whole plate but am getting excited about its potential. Also have film holders for three sizes that I have no cameras for.

[Pete Watkins]

On the Wista DX
6x7 Roll film holder
6x9 Roll film holder
4x5
On the (beautiful) B&J
4x5
half plate
5x7
On the BIG one
8x10
11x14 (but not often, have you seen the price of film?)