Good Used Monorail 8x10 Camera?

[Jack Flesher]

Thanks Ralph!

BTW, another bit of info on the Toyo G line you might find interesting... The folks at Betterlight have several rail cameras set up on studio stands to do testing of their cameras as well as some art-repro studio sessions for showing off the quality of the BL file as well as demo-ing their continuous lighting. For these purposes they tested MANY different models of cameras and settled on what they found to be the most rigid. Obviously they did this so as to eliminate camera motion and transfer of scanning head vibration as mcuh as possible as a potential image destructing variable. The cameras they found most suitable were the standard Toyo G. A few other rail cameras were acceptable, but in general, cameras with base tilts like the more deluxe GX version Toyo did not fare as well as the plain old G.

[archivue]

Norma 8x10 !

[Ernest Purdum]

While I agree with archivue that a Norma (that's a Sinar) would be great since you can never outgrow the Sinar family, because you said you don't have a ton of money to spend, maybe you might consider a non-monorail, the Calumet C-1. It isn't modular, it isn't very fashionable, but it is an awful lot of 8" X 10" for the money.