Intrepid 4x5 on an unnecessarily large and heavy tripod.
Intrepid 4x5 on an unnecessarily large and heavy tripod.
Let's go the other direction, Pentax 110 with 20-40mm Zoom...
Intrepid 4x5 on an unnecessarily large and heavy tripod.[/QUOTE]
that's funny! My first thought was "that looks like more than enough tripod!" That wagon/trailer looks pretty stout, too.
20"f6.3 & 36"f6.3 into Land Rover Santana Series 2a 109 HT
These cars were built under incense in Spain at Santana and featured a horizontally split rear door. An invitation to make it a rear standard for heavy aerial lenses which flew in Spitfire and Mosquito planes over my city during WW2. BTW the cars were built from the left over Birmabright aluminium sheets, initially intended to be used for these air craft during the war.
Set up is made from a few beams of aluminum, some plywood and lathe guides for the rear standard, which features all sorts of movements thanks to a Land Rover 24V alternator mount as a base for the plate holder. Lens is held by its original mount onto a sturdy ball tripod-head and a stand drill base for limitless movements.
(first design stage, lacking a plate holder)
90cm wide, it fits between the wheel arches, where normally my camping bed frame is placed.
It allows ca 70cm of focus movements on the sturdy and creamy running lathe guides, but can be entirely moved further back for ca another 70cm for close up focus. Shift is about 30cm to each side, raise about 25cm, tilt and swing quasi limitless.
Format usually is MTC5309 & MTC5311, which equals 11x14", but is sold as rear side door windows for Series Land Rovers. So we shoot Land Rovers with a Land Rover on Land Rover glass.
It's a Land Rover thing, you wouldn't understand....
More conventional use for these lenses: Same aluminium beams as used for the 4x4 camera above can be converted into a monorail camera, while the car still acts as dark room. Just needed to source a bellows, a Packard shutter and cut some plywood into front & rear standards and a plate holder for 11x14", reducible to 8x10" and 5x7" standard ware house picture frame glass sheets.
'Unfortunately, the 4x4 camera is in need of a new brake line and wheel cylinder ...
...so the mono rail is mostly used for portraits at home these days.
Anyone else around, who's camera runs on Diesel?
Okuhara (6-1/2 x 8-1/2) from Yamanashi-ken, Japan. Included book-style plate holders with metal film inserts. Added ability to use Graflex lens boards.
New to me Scovill 5x8 Dry plate. A beautiful camera that I been learning Dry Plate. I got the Camera from Mark Osterman and been studying MO1880 emulsion. Right next to my Horseman 45FA.
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Conley View Camera (5x7) with the original F8 Three-Focus Rapid Rectilinear in a Wollensak shutter.
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Horseman FA and Topcor 150mm from last week.
Here is my Toyo 45G. I bought it new in box the couple months ago, locally on facebook marketplace of all things. I bought a Nikkor 180mmF5.6 lens for it. I shoot 35mm and 120 - and wasn't planning on 4x5 but I couldn't pass it up.
It's a slippery slope. Nice Camera!Originally Posted by theAngryMarmot
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