4x5 large format field camera that can handle a 600mm lens

[Lenny Eiger]

I had one of those Nikon Tele's. I was unimpressed with the results. Even tho' I could get in the lee of something, out of the wind, I was still shooting at trees in the distance that were moving (and out of focus as a result), into haze that was just going to make everything mush. I was hearing that pollution is worse than it used to be. I finally just got rid of it. I never made anything that I kept....

I also decided that I only wanted to photograph things I understood, and that the things far away were too far away to feel much about anyway, and therefore wouldn't transmit much of that intangible stuff that makes things work - at least for me.

[djdister]

Suggest getting a 5x7 field camera with a 4x5 back, like one of the Canham's (traditional or all-metal), and using a non-tele 600mm lens.

[sun of sand]

600 from a doable nearly 400 isn't much of a jump instead being more of a step and with a second support pod along with anything else I'd just crop

I did a very simple experiment with diopters to see longest fl possible and 800 was bout it and that's a lightweight filter
That was a real jump, though.

Dsllmayer adon gets some extension while being lightweight but optically is only poor-mediocre


Cropping bettered both but ad on has soft potential

[AtlantaTerry]

I wasn't aware that cambo made folding field cameras. Which one do you have?

I thought we had progressed from a field camera to other suggestions such as a 5x7" or 8x10" with reducing back.

As I said, if I had to use a 600mm lens, this is what I would do.