Really nice setup with the model!!!
Really nice setup with the model!!!
My first post here after joining the forum in 2012.....yes, this is how long it took me to take the plunge down LF inferno and it was mainly the outbreak of this stupid virus that did it for me. Finally I had some spare time to learn about the equipment and track down all the bits and pieces that would suit me. So finally, after about 4 months of intense research (of which I enjoyed every minute) here is my setup, the new Chamonix Alpinist X camera with various lenses from 150mm to 600mm, now the journey truly starts.
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Holy sh*t, Scott, you’re loaded for bear!
Beano_z, that’s an awesome collection!
Congrats!
That's just the cameras... lenswise, well... just for 8x10, there's the 159mm Wolly f12.5, a 190 Wide-Field Ektar, 210 f6.8 Wolly Raptar, 240 Docter Optic Germinar-W, 12" Commercial Ektar, 14" Commercial Ektar, and an 1863 Voigtlander that is probably in the 12" f3.5 range. For the 14x17 I have a 355 G-Claron and a 450 Nikkor-M, and in the works is a 600 Apo-Germinar that needs mounted to a shutter, and a Kodak 405 Portrait that needs mounted to a board. For the 5x7 I have in addition to the others already listed for the 8x10 a 240 Heliar, a 10.5" Cooke Series II, 275mm Hermagis Eidoscope, a 110mm Wide-Angle Dagor, a Darlot Hemispherique Extra Rapide #2, and some random anonymous 10"-ish brass petzval-esque thing. One day I'll put all the brassies together and do a family portrait. The big Voigtlander isn't pretty, but it is complete with all its glass elements, an original flange and an original waterhouse stop. Oh, and I forgot the outlier (don't know its intended format, but it's a T. Slater Daguerrian lens - no flange, so I haven't mounted it on anything yet. Playing around it seems like it covers, barely, 5x7, so it was probably intended for 1/4 plate).
I love, maybe envy, the collection Scott.
Sweet setup, Beano_z!
20200929_182408 by rrunnertexas, on Flickr
Rochester Universal in full plate, with a Brass Volute shutter and B&L Universal lens.
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