Greetings from Amsterdam

[Pelle.txt]

Hey,

I just bought my first Graphic View a view weeks ago. The reason I bought this camera was cheap and it had a lens without a shutter. It's a 12" Dallmeyer lens. I'm a novice with large format photography.

As a photographer I'm experienced with the Mamiya C330 and as cinematographer I'm experienced with Super8. But as I'm learning at the moment Large Format is something completely different.

Pelle

[matthew blais]

Welcome and best of luck with the new venture

[Vick Vickery]

Welcome to group therepy! :) The Graphic View is an excellent camera that will do whatever you need a view to do. It might have been easier to deal with a lens with a shutter to begin with (I'm assumming here that it doesn't have a Packard shutter behind the lens board), but if you keep your f/stops small, a hat will do fine as a shutter most of the time...when you're exposing for a few seconds, counting them off is accurate enough. Have fun...you'll get used to thinking upside-down fast enough!