[rollei_list] Re: OT: Getting into 4x5 for the first time...

> I like QR plates.  I figure that point in time when you are wrestling a large
> bulky camera onto a relatively small point atop a tripod is fraught with
> danger.  Anything that makes this happen easier, faster and more securely is
> very good.   I use a RRS QR system with my Toyo 45A and when you think of it,
> the Rolleifix was one of the first QR plate setups ­ love mine.
>  
> Hey, have we done tripods yet?  - Carbon fiber vs. wood and all that stuff of
> endless debate?  
>  
> Rob  
>  
I got an Arca Swiss Plate for my Cambo NX a couple of years ago. Its on
there now but its got a hole in it in case you don¹t want to use it you can
just screw the camera in; which is unwieldy and difficult as the camera is
so big. I got an L grip adaptor, Kirk, for my then most used camera then my
D100 Nikon first digital camera in 2004.

Other than my newer Nikon digitals which dominate my photography now the
only camera which I¹d not Arca¹d is MY Rolleiflex.
The ROLLEIFIX works too perfectly for anything else and I find it
indispensable.

But I don¹t have any Arca bottoms out here with me in NY so I took my Arca
plates off my Leicas.
And I have a new tripod. A carbon Gitzo. A revelation.

I have a Wood Ries back in Portland made near Seattle. Very heavy. Huge top
plate.
I got two Ries heads.





Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com

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