Here is another project, which I suspect will be rather easy to build but I am wanting the perfect design. I have a 5x7 Kodak 33a camera parts leftover and want to build a hand holdable camera from them. My idea is rather simple, and I am certain it will work, but we will see how usable it will be. Here is the starting parts.
My desire is to make it as simple as possible, and knowing that I will want to use it for environmental portraits, I will be using a Kodak 203mm lens fix focused at maybe 8 feet. I am still working out the perfect focus though.
Now for a question. For handheld exposures with a large format camera, my gut feeling is that I will be able to use a shutter speed of 1/60 second because the 203mm lens is equivalent to a 50 mm on a 35mm camera. 1/60 can be hand held at that speed and format. The old rule of thumb I know is the shutter speed should match the focal length of the lens. Following that rule I should set the shutter to 1/200 second. So which is it? Anybody know?
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