Just asking. Anyone know anything about this "puppy"?
https://www.carousell.sg/p/seagull-c...era-286249724/
Just asking. Anyone know anything about this "puppy"?
https://www.carousell.sg/p/seagull-c...era-286249724/
Hard to say
I have 2 similar without the stand
Kumar gave them to me, I paid shipping from Japan
The 2 front folding cloth hood caught my eye
and the nice woodwork
I seek backs
Tin Can
Is this actually a 4x5 camera? Seems like it's at least a whole plate camera that happens to have a 4x5 back. The largest and heaviest mainstream 4x5 cameras are probably the older monorails like the Graphic View, B&J etc. Monorails are just a heavy design- unless they happen to be a Gowland Monorail that is.
Well, clearly its not a 4x5 camera. Appears to have a 4x5 reducing back though...
I think a 4X5 Horseman Rail camera is heaviest
especially if you add all options
it can be very heavy
Japan is dumping them, they need $
HORSEMAN LX-C LXC FOCUS COMPUTER 4X5 LARGE FORMAT FILM VIEW CAMERA
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...5633_&device=c
Tin Can
There was a guy, whose name escapes me .. he custom built these behemoth cameras and even lenses to go with it. I'm not sure if it was only 8x10 +. or if he made them smaller but these things were heavy monsters. They are kind of rare I want to say Busche or something like that I think there were 2 names. I think Frank Petronio ( or was it Jim Galli? ) had a big lens made this guy at one point. Kind of makes most other things look puny. This would have been in the early/mid 2000s that Frank or Jim had one, the guy who made these things was kind of well known, didn't hang around websites, but was interviewed and written about. I read about him years before I ever heard someone whose name I recognized bought his "stuff". I think whoever bought it commented about how big and heavy the lens was.
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