Kuljit,
Thanks for your kind response. I have something similar to what you show, on my Plaubel Peco Profia 4x5's. The major differences with Sinar are important and useful. There are adjustment knobs left and right on the bottom of the mirror box, adjust with these the mirror height, and mirror angle, and can be raised and lowered. The advantages of this are immediately apparent viewing the ground glass. Also there is a lever up top that flips the magnifiying lenses in an out of the viewing path. Sinar made a stronger ocular, I have never seen one for sale in all my time with this stuff. The answer to this (I am considering this) is magnifying eyeglasses from the store, they will fit inside the lighthood. We will see. You can remove the mirror box and use an ocular than presses against the glass as we all know, personally I prefer the Sinar Monocular lens attached to a bag bellows, I can see the fine detail quite well. The mirror box mechanism was patented by Sinar. Like I say it takes some getting used to, not everybody gets along with it. I am patient and I have been buying used Reflex Magnifiers for around $100 used, the Fotodiox unit is $300. I think you would find it very limiting compared to the Sinar.
I also really enjoyed the Hurrell video. Kudos to Bernice. Sure, expression and sensitivity to subject are paramount in LF portraiture. If you can overcome the challenges involved it can be quite rewarding. It certainly is a different vibe than shooting with digital. Hope you enjoy it, I certainly do
Mr. Fromm is right, you might consider a LF SLR. The only one I am immediately aware of is the 4x5 Arca Swiss, Good Luck finding one of those (or the accessories). BUT the Graflex SLR's are quite venerable and wonderful for LF portraiture. I had a Super D with Auto Aperture and sometimes I miss it. It also syncs with modern strobe. Geoff Berliner at Penumbra uses a hot rodded 5x7 Graflex to shoot tintypes! Frank Rubio could help with that
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