Show off your Large Format camera!

[Lars Holte]

I have a Toyo Field 45A that I really like, but the bellows were not light tight, and my attempts at repairing the bellows with black tape were not successful. I have now replaced the bellows with new bellows, and the results are pretty good.

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[Daniel Unkefer]

SONY DSC by Nokton48, on Flickr

Using Brass Hobby Modeling Screws I bolted a Plaubel 120x120 Adapter Board, to a Sinar Norma Uber Heavy Metal Homemade Machined Norma Board (heavily used) LOL. Always wondered what I would ever do with this thing LOL. So now all my Plaubel Junior mounted boards fit onto the Norma, which I can go up to 8x10, although with these 4x5 will do it nicely. This is the Schneider 135mm F3.8 Schneider Xenar, a not often seen lens, in the F3.8 version. Great to look through on the 4x5 Norma. The tripod is Shulman-inspired Leica Tiltall, modded with aluminum block. This tripod is in Shulman's books on Architecture and Interiors, which I studied intensely back in the Eighties.

[John Layton]

Someday a Norma...they're just so dang beautiful! someday...

[rudyumans]

Ron Wisner built Zone VI Classic. First and only collaboration between Ron Wisner and Fred Picker. S/n 241 out of 150 made. I have Fred Picker's write up about the design of this camera

[Roberto Nania]

Very beautiful!

[rudyumans]

Very beautiful!

Assuming you replied to my post, Thank you! It is a beautiful camera. Very well made and still in a perfect shape for a 35 year old camera. (The newest camera I have. All my other ones are older)

[Ron (Netherlands)]

8x10 Eastman Commercial in magnesium with 14" Ektar from 1940 (about the same year as the Camera).
Max. bellows extension 30".

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What a lovely piece! and quite rare indeed.

[lassethomas]

My newly renovated "red" 8x10 Szabad.
Considering a few details it's probably made in the early fifties, but no later than 1953, when Szabad switched to the "black" series.
Here with a 210mm/6.8 Angulon from 1954.
As one can see it's obviously inspired by the Kodak 2-D but with additional movements. Rise/fall, tilt and swing in front and tilt and swing in the back.

Cleaned, waxed, adjusted, new 900 mm bellow (as the original), new custom made handle (as the original design).
Film back was missing when I acquired it, but I found a 8x10 die-cast springback film holder and custom printed a frame to mount it on the camera.

It is a bit on the heavy side. Especially with the metal in the film holder.
But it has a nice feel to it and works like charm.
I might build a new film holder in some lighter material.

And some history on Szabad cameras

[Tin Can]

Very good!

I like have a rectangular filter holder

[MAubrey]

Finally get to take out my new 11x14 out for some shooting this next week.