Gowland SLR

[cyrus]

Look what was at the Adorama store today

Anyone else know much about this camera? What is the single shutter speed?

[Oren Grad]

Scroll down on this page:

http://www.petergowland.com/camera/history/

[Oren Grad]

Yikes!

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=75625

[cyrus]

Yikes!

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ad.php?t=75625

Yeah...ummm....I paid a lot more, sadly.

[cyrus]

1/50th of a second, huh? I guess I'll be needing some ND filters for this Xenar 1:4.5 240mm

[Ben Syverson]

Obviously this puppy is for studio photography with strobes... I wonder if it's hand holdable!

[cyrus]

Yeah it can be handheld - with great difficulty of course, much like a Graflex RB. Probably the only way to take horizontal photos unless your tripod head has some special adaptor that lets you flip the camera 90 degrees to the side.
My Polaroid 4x5 conversion is far more practial of course but this is a Gowland!

I am trying to figure out how to connect a flash to this - there is a post sticking out next to the lens...

[Jeremy Moore]

I sent an email about the one out here in Texas. Seems like the perfect thing to pair with a 240 Xenar, 240 Heliar, and 9" Verito for 4x5 studio portraits!

[Dave Brown]

I've got one, I think I've made one or two exposures with it. Bought it more out of curiosity than anything else. Turns out it's a lot easier and a lot more fun to use my medium format gear in the studio. Mine doesn't have the viewing hood shown in the photo, but it does have built in flash synch.

[cyrus]

...which brings up the point: how do you connect a flash to this?