Gowlandflex 4X5

[Tin Can]

I will when I get done battling a new computer and the cheapest Adobe

Spell check seems gone or way slow

I did try using the Gowlandflex

Had to make lensboards, my desigh

Then fiddle the matching lenses and the focus mirror

Then I tried a SINAR bino reflex

Then it needed new GG frame as it was bent

Then I took it apart

I just found a copy of Posing Guide No VI, I ordered a copy back in the day. This time from Abe Books.

You should post those photos. Not everybody here photographs roots

[Daniel Unkefer]

What lens did you decide to use? I think Tim Kelly uses the 210mm chrome Symmar pair, a not too expensive one. Or it could be a 180mm pair, both will work

His Gowlandflex portraits are amazing

[Tin Can]

I havent toucheh it for 8 years

I had 180's, have 210's

What lens did you decide to use? I think Tim Kelly uses the 210mm chrome Symmar pair, a not too expensive one. Or it could be a 180mm pair, both will work

His Gowlandflex portraits are amazing

[Paul Ewins]

Agreed! Mr. Gowland must have been an athlete to handhold it

I have a couple of Gowland TLRs, both different designs (probably earlier) to the one in Tin Can's photo. The bigger one with twin 360 Tele-Xenars weighs in at 4.6kg (10lb 2oz) while the other with 180 Xenars is 4kg (8lb 13oz). They actually feel a lot lighter than that because you are holding them close to your body so there isn't nearly as much strain on your arms.

[Tin Can]

I am not a big fan of any TLR

Tried a lot of them

I vastly prefer my 2 Yashica A as they are dead simple, both work, very cheap and I even got one back after years of 'loan'

[Tin Can]

Yep, it will rise again by somebody else

or I fit 2 360's

but I have the short bellows with cam

You've got one, Randy? Neat! I used to have a Keith Camera twin lens.....I wish I had kept it.

[Tin Can]

Peter,

There was a differnt 5X7 TLR that looked very interesting

but I missed

[warpath]

Re hand-held use, scroll down to the very bottom of this page, the section labeled "Photographic Beast":

https://web.archive.org/web/20030621...nd.com/camera/

Imagining an 11x14 now haha

[Havoc]

Re hand-held use, scroll down to the very bottom of this page, the section labeled "Photographic Beast":

https://web.archive.org/web/20030621...nd.com/camera/

That second illustration in the link looks more than a bit like a Mamiya Cxxx.

[Dustyman]

Coupla Gowlandflexes and a Cambo TWR54