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The Toho is excellent for field work, if you can find one. I was lucky and found one in nice condition for $625 after looking only a few months., The Toho detaches into two pieces, the collapsible...

A Meridian B technical/press camera may be the best option. It is a very sturdy, US-Made late 1940s press camera with full movements, including back swing and tilt movements, die cast aluminum...

Following up on Dan's suggestion, I checked to see whether shutter efficiency and angle off axis had any impact upon apparent tested shutter speeds. These were sampling-type checks, not the...

Thanks, Dan. I'll test under some varying conditions and see what transpires. I had several lenses mounted/remounted by Grimes and re-tested the shutter speeds after they came back with Grimes...

Keith at Custom Bellows, UK. The rear was about 8.5 inches square to fit the back/adapter place and the front was somewhat over four inches to fit the 5.5 inch square Sinar pattern Technika...

Dan, you make an excellent point about testing artifacts at higher speeds, particularly when using larger taking apertures.

However, on first blush, it does seem that the typical LF use of small...

FWIW Over the past several days, I just retested the shutters of literally 38 large format lenses, using a known-accurate shutter speed tester that matched the results that I got back from both...

A few more photos showing other aspects, including the Toho FC-45X monorail and base attachment units that include tilt, swing, rise/fall/ and shift movements. The Toho rail's mechanical design is...

Here's a DIY 5x7 conversion kit that I just made for my Toho FC-45X monorail, with all parts bought off new off the Internet except the custom aluminum supports that I had a machinist plasma-cut...

I was lucky in having a Toho FC-45 around to serve as a base unit. Otherwise, it would not have been as feasible. Toho did all of the heavy lifting back when... Yours seems just as serviceable...

Here's a DIY 5x7 conversion kit that I just made for my existing Toho FC-45X monorail, with all parts bought off new off the Internet except the custom aluminum supports that I had a machinist...

The Rittreck weighs 9 pounds 6 ounces without lens, case, etc. I have two, they're very solid and useful metal folding 5x7 cameras that often come with a second, 4x5 reducing back. It's not been...

FWIW - I have a Fujinon 400T in Copal shutter. It's big, sort of awkward, but fits smaller cameras that use Technika boards. I had low expectations but it's definitely sharper than I expected, sharp...

I am very sad to hear of his passing. It's the end of an era. Thank you to the OP for preserving his story and bringing it to our attention as well.

Scanning 5x7 BW film, I've had good success at very low cost and minimal mess, using the Epson fluid mount accessory for the V850, mylar from a local art supply store, a 4" hard artist roller from...

VERY helpful - thank you. I have one of those 300mm R Clarons as well as a suspect Ektar or two from that time frame.

Thank you!

Thank you very much. I appreciate your help and I look forward to communicating with Mr. Nagaoka.

44 years ago, my wedding present from my new wife was a 4x5 Nagaoka. I still have and use that camera and it's still in wonderful condition. Since then, I have moved mostly to 5x7 and I would like...

The Rittreck is the lineal ancestor of the modern Wista metal field cameras, but metaphorically built by whoever built the battleship Yamato.

The basic camera is an all-metal 5x7 outfit with...

The Rittreck body is the same size whether the standard 5x7 back is attached or the 4x5 reducing back. Same size, same weight regardless of which back is currently attached. I have no experience...

I just used my postage scale and weighed both of my Rittreck 5x7 kits with the factory 5x7 back and then also with the factory 4x5 back substituted for the 5x7 back. In both configurations, both...

I had a suspicion that the extra height in the film holder area suggested that it was originally a plate-size camera. As centering a standard 5x7 film holder works OK without light leaks, I'll...

Yes, the lens board is pushed upward into the channel and then a spring pushes the lens board downward to lock it in place

One thing that I thought out of the ordinary was that the area where...

Can anyone help identify this 5x7 camera? I bought it used about 35 years and recently did a full functional restoration but have no idea who made it or anything about it. For some reason, the name...

Yes, they're up and running very well again. I ordered a custom set for an unnamed 5x7 Japanese wood camera with some photos and measurements and the custom job fit perfectly upon receipt. They...

FWIW - I just reviewed the late 2019 speed test data that I have for the 30 lenses in shutter that I have in various 4x5, 5x7, and 11x14 kits. I did these tests so that I could put together a set of...

The 105/8 Fujinon SW is a very nice and sharp lens, in my experience, and I very much like mine, but it is a large lens using 77mm filters and may be a bit awkward on a light field camera. It does...

BH Photo Video in New York often has Ilford 5x7 BW film in stock. That's been the most reliable on-demand supplier that I've found.

Great idea for older lenses. Thank you! Not elegant, but workable and cost-effective. The only potential problem is that I've found it difficult on occasion to find snuggly fitting lens caps for...

Hello, Bernice:

FWIW, although I have mentioned that modern Fujinon lenses have proven to be reliably good for me and relatively more affordable used, I am not a Fujinon evangelist as I also use...

Hi, Dan: Thanks for the information about the 1.5 stop vignetting - I forgot the formula. As I shoot only BW at this time on LF and then scan, post-process, and digitally print, I haven't been...

I'm currently only doing black and white ( 4x5 TMax 100 and 5x7 Delta 100) on LF and then scanning for digital post-processing and printing.

That hybrid process allows me a fair degree of...

Hi, Alan

I checked the chart and it would appear that the series you compared are mismatched. The chart correctly shows the f/8 Fujinon SW wide angle lenses as 100 degrees coverage and the 90mm...

i have not found that an f/8 lens is significantly more difficult to view on the ground glass, but size and bulky may be of greater operational importance to some. On a smaller wooden camera ( I have...

The Fujinon f/8 lenses are 100 degree angle of coverage - the angle of coverage is inherent in the design of a particular lens. For a given angle of coverage, the diameter of the image circle...

Lots of good suggestions in this thread. I'll through in my own qualitative comments, FWIW, based upon my actual testing of the following 90mm UWA lenses that I have for different sets of 4x5 and...

I agree, if knobs were substituted for Allen hex head bolts, then the Gowland/Calumet is not fiddly. That's the point of this thread.

Some of the Allen hex heads on my Gowland/Calumet were...

While the 4x5 Gowland Pocket View ( also sold under the Calumet brand) is among the smallest and lightest 4x5 monorails of which I'm aware, my stock camera came new from Calumet with mostly...