I hate to show my ignorance, but...
I'm trying to increase my percentage of "keepers" and I'm hell bent on maximizing stability of my 4x5 when setting up to shoot. Learning the hard and expensive way just how many ways I can contribute to the focus being off just enough to irritate.
Whether it's a matter of the camera not being totally tightened up after focusing, or the ever-so-slight breeze caressing the bellows, or adding filters to the lens, or the tripod slowly sinking in the sand or gently trying to shoehorn-in a Polaroid holder to proof the shot, then removing that and slipping in the QL holder, etc, etc, etc.
I deliberately got a low profile ball head for my deliberately center-column-less tripod, thinking this would keep the camera as close as possible to the tripod plate and thereby increase stability.
I'm not ready to forgo my training wheels just yet by giving up the Polaroid 545 holder; but getting that hunk of metal into the camera back is never a delicate operation and I'm sure it destabilizes the camera. I haven't tried other Polaroid holders, so I don't know if they're any better.
Is there a 4x5 camera on the market that features a back that can be gently removed for purposes of loading the film holder after which the sandwiched pair can be remounted onto the camera? Seems to me that this would involve far less applied force than how I'm now having to load film.
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