New Chamonix in 3 months-ish

[fecaleagle]

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/yaw.html

Edit: Oops, missed Hugo's post above. Sorry about that!

[Jonathan Barlow]

I have an old Sinar document that explains "The advantages of the yaw-free view camera" available here:

http://www.jonathanbarlow.com/sinar-...ee-info-22.pdf

[welly]

It means it's not boring.

Surely that's "snore free" not "yaw free"?

[BradS]

Yawn.

[chuck94022]

If you're doing landscapes or portraits with your Chamonix 045N-2, I don't think you'll be disappointed to be missing out on the yaw-free feature of the 045N-3. If you use a field camera to do table-top product photography (not sure why you would, unless you prefer to have one tool for all your needs), this will be a welcome addition to the feature set.

I have no inside knowledge, but am a very satisfied 045N-2 user. My guess is that this feature will change the front and rear standard designs, and probably add weight. But I don't know if that is true. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with.

Personally, if I was focused on product photography, I'd probably be using a Sinar or similar. Hiking doesn't seem to be a big part of that specialty. As it is, my needs for movements are modest, and I've never had to twist my camera into a pretzel in the field.

[Kodachrome25]

Interesting, I look forward to seeing what it turns out to be. For what it is worth, I think the 45N-2 is best camera I have ever used in any format, just fantastic!

[Sal Santamaura]

Yawn.

Thank you so much for that extraordinarily valuable contribution. The archive will be so much better because of it.

[Preston]

From LF Info page that Hugo found for us:

"Yaw occurs, when the swing axes are not vertical"

(More complicated: "Yaw occurs, when the swing axes cannot be adjusted
parallel to those lines of the subject, which should appear parallel on
the film". This includes above definition.) "P.Groepper"

It will be interesting to see how Chamonix deals with the yaw issue.

Since I'm from Texas...'Yaw free to read the other explanations on that page' ;-)

Thanks for the link, Hugo!

--P

[dave_whatever]

Hang on, aren't the swing axes on a chamonix already vertical? Regardless of what you do with rise or tilt on the front standard for example, the swing axis is still vertical through that screw in the base..... isn't it? I'm confused.

[Preston]

Hang on, aren't the swing axes on a chamonix already vertical? Regardless of what you do with rise or tilt on the front standard for example, the swing axis is still vertical through that screw in the base..... isn't it? I'm confused.

Yes, if the lens isn't tilted. However, if I understand correctly, the swing axis is off-vertical when the lens is tilted. Or...am I confused?

--P