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cyrus
4-May-2011, 11:17
Look what was at the Adorama store today

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

Oren Grad
4-May-2011, 11:41
Scroll down on this page:

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

Oren Grad
4-May-2011, 11:47
Yikes!

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=75625

cyrus
4-May-2011, 12:06
Yikes!

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=75625

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

cyrus
4-May-2011, 12:21
1/50th of a second, huh? I guess I'll be needing some ND filters for this Xenar 1:4.5 240mm

Ben Syverson
4-May-2011, 12:24
Obviously this puppy is for studio photography with strobes... I wonder if it's hand holdable! :)

cyrus
4-May-2011, 12:50
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
4-May-2011, 13:10
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
4-May-2011, 23:31
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
5-May-2011, 08:38
...which brings up the point: how do you connect a flash to this?

cyrus
5-May-2011, 09:21
Turns out it's a lot easier and a lot more fun to use my medium format gear in the studio.

I certainly don't plan on giving up my MF cameras now that I have this camera but lets not forget one inherent advantage to using a 4x5 vs a MF for any type of photography: 6.25 sq inches vs. 20 sq inches. Size does matter! :p

Actually I think the Polaroid 4x5 conversion I have is also quite useful for studio photography too (except that it idoesn't have the benefit of "you see what the camera lens sees" as with this SLR, and the viewfinder does not match the real framing too well & cuts off quite a bit)

Lynn Jones
5-May-2011, 13:37
We lost my long time friend, Peter a bit over a year ago, he was about 94. Peter was a terrific photographer of women in glamour, of course he made unusual cameras, served in WWII and was one of the first emerging post war photographers. He is thought to have had more than a thousand magazine covers. A very soft spoken, charming, and very pleasant man. For me as a young teen aged beginning photographer he was a hero to me and I wanted to be just like him. Obviously I couldn't be just like him, I'm a different kind of photographer, but since I admired him greatly, I was happy to have a casual friendship with him.

Lynn

cyrus
5-May-2011, 14:24
We lost my long time friend, Peter a bit over a year ago, he was about 94. Peter was a terrific photographer of women in glamour, of course he made unusual cameras, served in WWII and was one of the first emerging post war photographers. He is thought to have had more than a thousand magazine covers. A very soft spoken, charming, and very pleasant man. For me as a young teen aged beginning photographer he was a hero to me and I wanted to be just like him. Obviously I couldn't be just like him, I'm a different kind of photographer, but since I admired him greatly, I was happy to have a casual friendship with him.

Lynn

Wish he was still around not least just so I can ask him how to connect a flash (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=75687) to his Gowland SLR camera!