Show off your Large Format camera!

[Tin Can]

RIP

Many died for Vietnam

My cousin too

[ic-racer]

Hmm...I thought it was to keep the front of the bed out of the photo.

The rear is tilted all the way back to its stop. This keeps the front rails out of the image.
The base tilt on the lens is tilted more than the back. This allows the lens to come all the way to the ground glass. It can actually touch, so the minimal focal length is zero.
The front axial tilt is adjusted so the lensboard is parallel to the ground glass. Opening the upper clips on the GG back and swinging it out a tad allows one to see, from the inside, both front and rear openings and it is easy to align them parallel.
This is all possible due to the presence of both front axis and base tilts not found on the other Phillips-style cameras.

What is not easy is centering the lens. The view from the corners is too dim. The lens has to be centered with a ruler.

[MauroScacco]

LInhof technika Press Red 6x9 with 53mm biogon and 100 planar

1959 - extraordinary camera, only a few examples were made and it disappeared into thin air, replaced in 1963 by the ugly Technika 70
Extraordinary for the speed of focusing with the center ring, for the ability to change lenses instantly without having to reset the telemetry system by moving the cams, very bright viewfinder and fast shooting

In short, a combat PRESS :-)

DSC05355 by Mauro Scacco, su Flickr

[MartyNL]

Sweet looking camera!

[Beevo]

I had a Technika 70, my first foray into Medium/Large format. As you say a truly ugly camera...

Yours is a pretty looking, very business like camera.

Bill

[drarmament]

Korona View Ver2 with a 360mm Rodenstock Portrait Anastigmat Eurygon.


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[neil poulsen]

I had a Technika 70, my first foray into Medium/Large format. As you say a truly ugly camera...

Yours is a pretty looking, very business like camera.

Bill

Ditto, moi. I began with a MF Tech IV with a 65mm Angulon, a 105mm Zeiss Tessar, and a 180mm Schneider Tele. It was a neat camera, but finally sold it because it lacked sufficient movements for wide--angle lenses.

[Daniel Unkefer]

1000mm F16 Apo Ronar Wolfe Configuration Close Up Looks Good by Nokton48, on Flickr

This is very close to what Mr. Wolf was using out in the field. A standard sized 8x10 Norma Bellows, three Norma Auxiliary Standards (I have another one coming). Three Norma 4x5 standards. The Compendium Hood is a Norma Tapered 4x5 Bellows. Viewing through the lens image looks really good and sharp. The two C40's provide ROCK SOLID support even in strong wind. Tripods may be weighted down in the field.
Measured bellows draw is Fifty-three Inches, so calculated Bellows draw factor is TWO STOPS for this close-up.

1000mm Rodenstock Apo Ronar ready to go! 2 by Nokton48, on Flickr

View through 8x10 Tele Sinar Norma 1000mm F16 Apo Ronar by Nokton48, on Flickr

View through the 8x10 Tele Norma 1000mm F16 Rodenstock Apo Ronar. I have a fresnel screen on the camera, the hotspot moves around, to view the glass in "quadrants". Quite sharp as I would expect from all my Apo Ronar, from the 150mm tiny gem, to this MONSTER. I'll leave this up til I'm satisfied, need to load 8x10 and 18x24cm holders next. This is great fun! Figuring how to break this down, into my Sinar Norma Cases, will take some thinking. Three or four cases would hold it all. I have a Mint 8x10 Norma Case (bought from a very Nice Gentlemen in Italy), for the rear standard and a lot of stuff. The two FOBA tripods continue at my CLA Spa, one is fully done, cleaning it with Electronic Contact Cleaner, as I would do with Normas, makes a big operational difference in how the big rig handles. Easy to make changes once the rig is up and running!