The largest and/or heaviest 4x5" camera ever?

[xkaes]

Just asking. Anyone know anything about this "puppy"?

https://www.carousell.sg/p/seagull-c...era-286249724/

[Tin Can]

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

[domaz]

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.

[xkaes]

Is this actually a 4x5 camera? Seems like it's at least a whole plate camera that happens to have a 4x5 back.

For all I know that is an 8x10" reducing back. All the seller says is it's pre WWII. Your guess is as good as mine.

[djdister]

Well, clearly its not a 4x5 camera. Appears to have a 4x5 reducing back though...

[Bob Salomon]

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.

If you are talking heavy 45 monorail cameras then one would be the Linhof 45 Master GTL AMS. The ones you name are lightweights!

[Tin Can]

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

[jnantz]

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.

[Dan Fromm]

Just asking. Anyone know anything about this "puppy"?

https://www.carousell.sg/p/seagull-c...era-286249724/

Joe, don't shout!

[Bob Salomon]

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

The GTL should still be heavier. Without accessories it is 18.25 pounds out of the box!