Emotions are extremely powerful in ways some might not fully appreciate or understand. Emotions are also what memories are made of, thus the connection to Nostalgia...
Memories that are the results of emotions can be directly tied to cameras in various ways due to the power of still images produced by any given camera. This could be partly why cameras hold their value in various ways..
As for the Sinar P, it is and always be a modular system, NOT just a camera in any way. The front and rear frames can be removed then replaced by various image making devices to allow far more versatility than being used as a camera alone.
Not long ago, the Sinar P2 was used as a digital camera positioning device combined with a compendium lens shade to do art copy work. The ease, stability and precision repeatability greatly eased setting up digital camera to art being copied into a digital file. The compendium lens shade was mandatory due to the lighting involved. All this was set up using the Sinar P2 with various Sinar system bits and home made up bits.
Another image making need where the Sinar P/P2/ ... Sinar system excels at is Marco-close up work in conjunction with a digital or similar image recording device. Exampled here in this YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU8ozo1ubfc
BTW, been there done this decades ago with a Sinar P. If this need comes up again, The Sinar bits will simply get built up from modular form to meet the image making needs.
Ponder how perfume bottles can be creatively imaged using the modular Sinar system and your current studio lighting rigs_?_
Some time ago on LFF there was a request from a film maker (cinema) for a monorail camera that can be adaptable for producing cinema scenes of a view camera ground glass as part of their film production. After plenty of typical LFF verbiage from the usual cast of personalities, this film maker settled on using a Sinar P built up from Sinar modules to meet this film making need. Inspiration and idea came from this "lash-up".
Sinar modularity at play.
The Sinar P/P2 can be easily altered to adapt a digital camera DSLR or Mirrorless into a camera with movements (ala: Sinar P3) as currently being marketed by Cambo Acts-G by replacing the front-rear frames with digital camera and lens adapters in place of the front-rear frames as needed.
https://www.cambo.com/en/actus-serie...g-view-camera/
This results in a digital camera with view camera movement capability with the ease of adjustability, stability, precision baked into the Sinar P/P2.
As for market demand for Sinar in general, their market prices have gone up. IMO, partly due to a new generation of sheet film folks that have come to realize just how versatile, capable, modular, reliable-durable the Sinar system is. Know the current sheet film view camera user consists of folks from a digital or roll film history. Many appear to want to continue their style of outdoor/natural light image making style with a sheet film camera, secondarily outdoor image making can often become an outdoor adventure beyond the photography. Personally, that is not my view camera history as it began as studio image making centric (powerful studio strobes with light modifiers and all that) with all the demands and needs of producing commercial art and similar. That is simply a very different world than doing outdoor landscape images while out hiking-camping. This has become one of the primary markets and users of light weight field folder cameras. Another segment of view camera users today are alternative process images, from wet plate to dry glass plates, carbon prints and LOTs more Image making methods that demand sheet film as part of their image making process.
Bernice
Originally Posted by pdmoylan
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