How about the Walker ABS camera someone has for sale here right now? That would be about as rugged as on 8x10 could get.....The bellows and lens would be the week links. I doubt those copal 3s get very close to their max speeds.....
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I missed that part. I live in South Dakota, have been shooting 4x5 for over 25 years and 8x10 for several years now. South Dakota is a windy place. Trust me when I say that 8x10 and "windy" do not add up to success unless you can set the camera up behind a large wind break. The surface area of an 8x10 makes it a very large sail that shimmies in the wind.
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Compur Electronic shutters from the 1960's had a single mechanical speed, its highest speed: 1/200 for a #3 and 1/500 for a #1. All other speeds are controlled by 1960's electronics in the form of resisters and capacitors - not a single integrated circuit is present! What could possible go wrong?
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get a big solid cooler to store your stuff.
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So Edward Weston made many of his famous portraits, and other images, using a smaller format camera, when 8x10 was not feasible. He then duped the negative to 8x10 to make contact prints.
That is how he could use cameras with faster shutters and on occasion, hand-held. Remember , enlarging, or projection printing does not get really going until the late 1930s. And that was because platinum, the previlant fine art medium for prints from 1870s, became hard to get in
the late 1920s in the US, and non-existant after about 1936. And B&W Silver paper being so much faster, along with the availability of the Leica, and later the Contax platforms, which required enlarging, also were things that pushed enlarging to the fore.
Just some thoughts.
Rod
Aerial camera. Usually 9x9 inch, though.
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Aerial camera. Usually 9x9 inch, though.
Darkroom Automation / Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
f-Stop Timers & Enlarging meters http://www.darkroomautomation.com/da-main.htm
One big problem will be wind. 8x10 bellows are like a sail.
Get a section of round pipe - lightweight and fit it to the camera to cover the bellows so they are protected from direct hits in the wind.
It does work even while it looks crazy.
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