I have a Commercial Astragon 180mm f6.3 in a Seikosha SLV shutter, just repaired by Carol Miller. I know it's basically a copy of a Kodak Commercial Ektar, made in Japan in the 1970's to take up the slack when Kodak dropped their Ektars.
I really have no use for the lens per se as I have many other lenses I use in that range, but I thought, as I collect cameras, that it might be kind of fun to find a camera from the same period (1970s or before) to put it on. Preferably a 5x7 because this lens will cover this format. As it's a knockoff lens, not exactly top of the line but very usable, I thought matching it with a decent knockoff camera might be fun.
Any of you historians out there have any suggestions as to what might be a good camera to mate it with? Nothing high end, please.
(PS: by the way, Carol Miller's work is just excellent!)
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