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rpagliari
21-Feb-2019, 04:45
I have considered the Silvestri cameras as an alternative to view cameras as I mostly use rise/fall and almost never the other movements.
I still don't understand how focusing is achieved. I looked into the manual but it is not mentioned. Only with longer lenses, it seems that the extension bellows is used for focusing.
Thank you ,
Don't they use lenses with helicoid focusing?
rpagliari
21-Feb-2019, 06:02
I don't know much about LF yet. Is it a mechanism on the body that rotates and moves the lens back and forth?
Yes, it is, indeed. More characteristic of MF cameras but used on some LF cameras too. Cheers!
Oren Grad
21-Feb-2019, 09:08
I don't know much about LF yet. Is it a mechanism on the body that rotates and moves the lens back and forth?
Each lens for the Silvestri cameras comes in its own focusing helical with a proprietary body mount. There's lots of information on the Silvestri web site:
http://www.silvestricamera.com/index.htm
Silvestri cameras and lenses tend to be very expensive and fairly scarce on the used market. If you want to shoot 4x5 with a rigid-body architectural/technical camera, the original Cambo Wide is likely to be both less expensive and easier to find. The Cambo Wide also uses helical-mounted lenses on proprietary panels.
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