Show off your Large Format camera!

[Tin Can]

Very cool

I hope everybody is using real Gaff Tape

I always have a roll of white and black Gaff Tape in 2"

I also have rolls of other specialty tape

I curse all users of 'Photographer tape' especially heroes of our past

[Daniel Unkefer]

I bought some "Camera Store Tape" recently, a Broncolor Strip Light taped with such, the tape unglued itself, and the front of the striplight fell to the floor. I took the roll of "Camera Store Tape" and threw it in the trash. I buy all my Gaff Tape from B&H. They sell the real deal at a good price.

SONY DSC by Nokton48, on Flickr

Approximate View through new to me 4x5 Arca Swiss Reflex Finder on Auto Makiflex. As you can see there is a nice black border around the 9x9cm full frame glass. Perfect for viewing the entire field without straining

[NormaN]

my new toy ))

Your new Toy(o) 😊

[darr]

[Daniel Unkefer]

Gosh that's a nice looking Norma. Back in the eighties I paid $1500 for a clean one in the hard case, I had never seen one in the flesh. Now they are going for a lot less. Norma was the choice of a lot of prominent Architectural Photographers of the day. I studied Architectural Design for two years at OSU but ended up changing Majors. An awful lot of B&W and E6 ran through that Norma, which I still have. Back then I used the 115mm f6.8 Grandagon and the 90mm F4.5 Grandagon primarily.

[Daniel Unkefer]

Hmm this one looks sorta like mine. Earlier Normas had the locking clamps on the focus knob, later on they eliminated that. The sync cord on the shutter can be troublesome but can easily be rebuilt.

A beauty!

[abruzzi]

Hmm this one looks sorta like mine. Earlier Normas had the locking clamps on the focus knob, later on they eliminated that.

I’ve always wondered about that. I have some Norma standards with the focus locks and some without. I like having them there and was wondering if they could be retrofitted to standards without the lock.

A completely left field Norma question—has anyone seen grey Normas? My 5x7 standard and aux standard are grey, not tan.

[rfesk]

My 5x7 Norma was green.

[abruzzi]

My 5x7 Norma was green.

interesting. Most of my pieces are tan (well..I'm very colorblind, so they might be green...) But these two pieces are battleship grey, and smooth, not with the crinkly texture of the other pieces.

[John Layton]

Green like the Toyo VX? That would be cool! Or, more like a British racing green? Love this on something like an old Jag. or MGA, even an older 911 - but on a camera I'm not so sure...hmmm