Grayhand
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I think it is better I start a new thread reporting on my new Dayi 4x5 camera, rather than contaminating the "Fun with Large format" thread.
I have for a number of years been looking for a 4x5 camera that suits my mobile analog needs.
I started with a Chamonix camera so I could leave my Sinar camera in the studio.
It was a good camera with lots of possibilities, and I have written about it here on Getdpi before.
But I want to walk the windy beaches in all kind of weather.
One of my favorite is horizontal rain..
And, the Chamonix was way to delicate for that.
You just turn your back to it for a second and when you turn back again, its bellow is flying in the wind.
So I sold it and bought a brilliantly converted Polaroid rangefinder with the possibility to switch lenses easy.
I have a 90 mm, 127 mm and a 150 mm lens for it + a pin hole. And it got a rangefinder with a cam for the 127 mm lens.
The back is for the Graflok system so I can put almost anything on it, including digital back, with a sliding adapter.
Works brilliant.
But, is has a bellow, so my obsession with horizontal rain ..
So I started to lock at the Arca Rmdi, It have all I want.
Then I started thinking, for a change. I have a well honed skill when it comes to buy a lot of expensive camera equipment.
But why not try something different this time?
So I started to search the Ebay site, and quickly did an interesting solution surface.
It was a cheap technical camera, made in China. The brilliant thing about this camera model was that you have to bring your own camera back.
That means that I personally bought a camera that was intended for the Sinar graflok back, So I just took one of my spare Sinar backs and put on it.
Now I am guaranteed that I have full compability with all the stuff I am used to use!.
So I buy one camera with a lens cone for the 65 mm lens (which I already owned)
I also have a good 90 mm and 150 mm lens, so I buy them each a lens cone.
Each cone comes with a helical for focusing.
I was a little suspicious of its quality regarding the price for it.
But I was really surprised by its good quality, I paid only 560 USD, including shipping for the camera.
Don't really remember at the moment what I paid for the other two lens cones, but I thing it all was about 900:ish USD for the whole set up.
But that was all I had to pay, every other little obscure detail for this system I already owned!
So, I did trow it all in my little camera bag, and including the trusty tripod, it weighed in just over 18 kilo.
Off we went for a 7 km walk around the "Billudden" nature reserve at the sea.
(I include some picture from todays walk, from my iPhone and other "low life" cameras).
Will write more tomorrow of my experience with this neat little camera pack
This system demands a few thing of you, but if you can meet that demand then :chug:
But that is for tomorrow.
Ray
I have for a number of years been looking for a 4x5 camera that suits my mobile analog needs.
I started with a Chamonix camera so I could leave my Sinar camera in the studio.
It was a good camera with lots of possibilities, and I have written about it here on Getdpi before.
But I want to walk the windy beaches in all kind of weather.
One of my favorite is horizontal rain..
And, the Chamonix was way to delicate for that.
You just turn your back to it for a second and when you turn back again, its bellow is flying in the wind.
So I sold it and bought a brilliantly converted Polaroid rangefinder with the possibility to switch lenses easy.
I have a 90 mm, 127 mm and a 150 mm lens for it + a pin hole. And it got a rangefinder with a cam for the 127 mm lens.
The back is for the Graflok system so I can put almost anything on it, including digital back, with a sliding adapter.
Works brilliant.
But, is has a bellow, so my obsession with horizontal rain ..
So I started to lock at the Arca Rmdi, It have all I want.
Then I started thinking, for a change. I have a well honed skill when it comes to buy a lot of expensive camera equipment.
But why not try something different this time?
So I started to search the Ebay site, and quickly did an interesting solution surface.
It was a cheap technical camera, made in China. The brilliant thing about this camera model was that you have to bring your own camera back.
That means that I personally bought a camera that was intended for the Sinar graflok back, So I just took one of my spare Sinar backs and put on it.
Now I am guaranteed that I have full compability with all the stuff I am used to use!.
So I buy one camera with a lens cone for the 65 mm lens (which I already owned)
I also have a good 90 mm and 150 mm lens, so I buy them each a lens cone.
Each cone comes with a helical for focusing.
I was a little suspicious of its quality regarding the price for it.
But I was really surprised by its good quality, I paid only 560 USD, including shipping for the camera.
Don't really remember at the moment what I paid for the other two lens cones, but I thing it all was about 900:ish USD for the whole set up.
But that was all I had to pay, every other little obscure detail for this system I already owned!
So, I did trow it all in my little camera bag, and including the trusty tripod, it weighed in just over 18 kilo.
Off we went for a 7 km walk around the "Billudden" nature reserve at the sea.
(I include some picture from todays walk, from my iPhone and other "low life" cameras).
Will write more tomorrow of my experience with this neat little camera pack
This system demands a few thing of you, but if you can meet that demand then :chug:
But that is for tomorrow.
Ray
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