For LF tightening creep is irrelevant as you do final cropping using shift movements. You also tend to not crop so tightly in LF.
Interesting comment, another thing I didn't know (the creep not being important in LF bit). I would have thought that you would want to level the camera just perfectly with the ballhead. If the camera lilts slightly to one side, it couldn't be corrected with a shift, but I suppose with a little rotation of the back? I am curious why you said shift, is that because the Burzynski only moves in an axial way?
So, my first LF piece arrived, the Schneider-Kreuznach 210mm f/5.6 APO-Symmar, and it is absolutely stunning, virtually as new and beautiful to handle and look at. I overpaid a little at $445 ($400 seemed about the right price level), but there weren't any more on the horizon and I am used to Leica prices, so it seemed like a deal
I have a question though: I was surprised to find out that the aperture lever has no detents, is that standard for LF lenses?
I was also surprised to see how compact the lens was, about the size of a MF normal lens. In the photos, the only object to compare size with was the lens plate, and I thought they were much larger, but it is tiny, so I had the wrong idea in my head
The f/8 and f/9 210mm lenses must be really tiny.
I am all keen to try it out in anger, but it will be a few weeks before I can afford the Chamonix, so I am looking at cheap 4x5 studio cameras in eBay, like the Cambos. It looks like it might be possible to get one for a ridiculously small amount of money, like less than 100 Euro. Any recommendations?