Interesting 6x17 Camera Review

**GPS** · 5-Oct-2006, 08:42

Originally Posted by David A. Goldfarb

Speed? It doesn't have a rangefinder. You still have to use a groundglass attachment.."

It has a viewfinder, a rangefinder is good for nothing here..

Originally Posted by Walker 5x7 XL[/URL

would be just as quick if not quicker to set up and make your first image. And its $8000 cheaper which I could spend on film!

Can you take handheld images with the Walker as quickly as with this Gilde? lol

Someone just cannot get it that there is a field where a rollfilm camera excels all other cameras.

**GPS** · 5-Oct-2006, 08:53

Originally Posted by Leonard Evens

Back to the real world, I think most of us would just choose more limited capabilities in two or three different cameras and just dream of doing more all at once. But for someone who really wants what this camera offers and can easily afford the price, it looks like a winner.

I agree, the price (not in $$$) that you pay for this multi "Leatherman" camera is that you carry all the time that what you use just some time. I wouldn't need the uncle, yet when I think of it from the practical point of view I don't find it so super. The case where less is more, I think. Never mind, at least it exists.

**robc** · 5-Oct-2006, 11:37

Oh I get it!

The prime benefit of this camera is that I can whip it out of my pack and shoot from the hip in great speed. Lol.

I guess thats why he built in ground glass and shift which are prime requirements for speed, not to mention adjusting the frame size. And I guess all panorama camera uses shoot hand held as well for optimum results.

Me thinks you've lost the plot...

**GPS** · 5-Oct-2006, 12:01

Originally Posted by robc

Oh I get it!

The prime benefit of this camera is that I can whip it out of my pack and shoot from the hip in great speed. Lol.

I guess thats why he built in ground glass and shift which are prime requirements for speed, not to mention adjusting the frame size. And I guess all panorama camera uses shoot hand held as well for optimum results.

What you don't get is:
that this is not primarily a panoramic camera,
that ground glass and shift are not prime requirements for speed, (as is not adjusting the frame size),
that all panorama cameras are not shoot hand held for optimum results...
that rollfilm cameras have a great advantage in the speed of photography...

**robc** · 5-Oct-2006, 12:08

If you've got a sense of humour try engaging it sometime...

**Paul Droluk** · 5-Oct-2006, 19:16

I saw and handled the camera while at Photokina... it is VERY versatile, VERY large, VERY heavy, and VERY complex. All in all... VERY Gilde.

**GPS** · 6-Oct-2006, 01:07

It's like all of your Fotoman cameras in one, isn't it? But at what a price of weight, complexity and practicality! Frankly, I would rather have 4 different Fotoman cameras than this Gilde - for purely practical reasons.