Show off your Large Format camera!

[Andrew Plume]

Apart from the above mentioned the 8x10 Tachihara and Wista accept Sinar sized boards.
You can get the larger Argentum cameras made to use Sinar boards.

the larger Canham models also take Sinar boards

andrew

[Andrew Plume]

Showing the cameras with the Sinar shutter, you can also attach the shutter in front of the lens.Attachment 129385Attachment 129387Attachment 129388

looking good, very good

but adding a Sinar shutter to the front of an Ebony..............well what would the Ebony purists say?

lovely Cameras though

regards
andrew

[Bill_1856]

Just what IS a Sinar shutter, anyhow?

[Andrew Plume]

http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/info/sinar_2.html

regards
andrew

[Steven Tribe]

I personally decided not to use either front mounted (barrel) sinar/copal shutters or lensboard mounted sinar/copals.

Apart from the problems of using different extra mountings for both these solutions (unless you only have 1 lens), there were other problems:

- Barrel mounted Sinar/Copal are not things of beauty - especialy in connection with mahogany and brass! T-P shutters will do the job as well as looking the part. There are mahogany versions and black/steel versions so a match to a camera is possible. They cost a tenth of the price of a working S/C shutter (with working release cable) so you afford a range of sizes.

- Lens board mounting is also less attractive and the whole structual stability is questionable for big barrel lenses.

[Lachlan 717]

Interesting that form is more important to you that function.

[Tin Can]

A front mounted shutter may induce vibration. The weight is in the wrong place.

[Steven Tribe]

Interesting that form is more important to you that function

Not true.

I used concealed sinar/copals on reisekameras between the bellows and the front standard, together with universal iris clamps for swapping lenses. Practicality - not appearance! I use similarly mounted Grundner shutters on Studio cameras - the restricted aperture/access to speed changes on sinar/copals is a problem with big soft/petzval lenses on these.

On cameras without the sinar-copal possibilty, I use T-P (or their rivals) curtain shutters or Zettors which do the job at a very low price. But they do look better too!

[RSalles]

Folks,

I like many solutions showed on the last pages, the Wista 4x5 and the Ebony camera are both the best for my taste - I'm restricting my work in the 4x5 format right now.
The arguments and counter-arguments about the Sinar Copal shutter IMO reduces to a matter of taste viewed from outside. In my particular case I'm searching for a all-in-one solution, and the main target is to preserve the workability of various mount lens I have around and go for a lighter/more portable camera then the only I own now for outdoors (Sinar F2).
For the T-P or rivals shutters, it could be an option, but as I already have a number of DB mount Sinar lenses, it's more easy to use the shutter I already have,

Cheers,

Renato

[StoneNYC]

Not the whole camera, but just got a custom made extension 8x10 to 4x5 reducing back for my Chamonix 8x10 so now I can use 545 and polaroid/fujiroid p45/p145 backs for instant images and test exposures!





Love Chamonix! Sure it cost me a lot for a custom setup but totally worth it!