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[Naej]

Hi.

I bought my Meridian 45B camera in March, but it's only today that I took a picture of it.

At first, I was looking for a MPP camera. Unfortunately, poor as I am, I couldn't afford a decent one. And buying a Technika? If I couldn't afford a MPP, how could I buy a Linhof?

Still, stubborn as I am, I kept looking for a field camera that has all the possibility (or most) of a view camera (I own a Toyo View 45G). I don't remember how, but I found out that there was more than the MPP and the Linhof which have all the movement that I was looking for, but also the Meridian.

This camera has the front that can tilt, raise and shift. And the back can tilt and shift. This back can easily turn to do portrait photographs. Like the Linhof, it has the possibility of using wide angle lenses and the bed can go lower (about 30° I would say) to help being out of the way when using a wide angle lens, or to lower the lens.

I recently bought a 150mm ƒ5.6 Fujinon W (EBC) to use with it as I didn't like the 135mm Wollensak that came with the camera.

So, here it is:


P.S.: Sorry for my bad English. This is not my native language.

[dodphotography]

Camera is off to the doctors.

Naked 810 without bellows, makes me sad.

The wait continues.


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[rjbuzzclick]

Camera is off to the doctors.

Naked 810 without bellows, makes me sad.

The wait continues.


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This read like a really great haiku, so I actually counted the syllables...

[Greg]

Stratton Brook State Park, Simsbury, Ct. Typical fall day in New England with the leaves beginning to change color. 11x14 Chamonix. Lately I find myself more and more working directly out of the back of my car with the 11x14. One case for the camera & holders, one for lenses, and one for everything else. Everything very close at hand. Not shown (inside the car) a 120 Noblex, Mottweiler P.90 120 pinhole camera, and an 11x14 pinhole camera. Wonderful to easily carry around several formats and cameras.

[MikeCoke]

Me with Korona 12x20 that I used back the 1960s & 70s,

[Tin Can]

Cool, tell us more about it

Lens?

and are those reinforcements in white?

How about the paper bell...

much bigger than my 7X17!

Me with Korona 12x20 that I used back the 1960s & 70s,

[MikeCoke]

The white piece at the rear is a new piece of wood the replace the original that most of the screws would not hold. The other piece is because the the tripod support plate did not give enough support for the camera. It is a piece of plywood that ran from front to rear of the tracks and the width of the tracks.
It was so long ago the lens might have been a wollensak.

[Whir-Click]

Great camera, great picture: thanks! I use the same plywood support base with mine.

With the Compound shutter, could the lens have been a Turner Reich Series II 11x14? It covers the 12x20 format nicely and bears a strong resemblance in the photo.

[MikeCoke]

Now that mention it I think you are correct. I even used it on my Eastman 2-D. I think I used the wollensak on the 8x10 and also with the 4x10 Back I had.

[carbo73]

A probably German tailboard camera, in 13x18 format. It's lens is a Rodenstock Recti-Aplanat f8 210mm, mounted in an unnamed (but German) roller-blind shutter. The serial number in the lens puts it c.1910-1912.