[rollei_list] Re: OT: Getting into 4x5 for the first time...
- From: "Jerry Laderberg" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:57:49 -0400
Seems easy enough to make at home, but price wasn't bad
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From: Jeff Kelley
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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:04 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Getting into 4x5 for the first time...
Jim, I wrote to Steve yesterday hoping to order one his Easy Frame devices
and he replies that he is "out of business...."
See this page on his site:
http://www.summitek.com/products.html
Jeff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I do exactly this since moving a view camera around and changing
lenses to find the right framing and perspective is tedious. My
viewer, cord, and knots, was made commercially by Steve Peterson
(Summitek) http://www.summitek.com/easel.html (bottom left in the
picture). I have knots down one side for my SL66 lenses and knots down
the other side for my 4x5 lenses.
:-)
Jim
On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:20 PM, ralaubach@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Probably the best tool for large format photography, and also in
> light of the heavy equipment schlepping issue, is a simple viewing
> frame - Take an 8x10 or 11x14 piece of mat board, cut a 4x5" hole in
> the center, and attach a string to the opening in the center of each
> of the dimensions. Then mark the string at the distance of the
> focal length of each lens you have e.g. 90mm, 210mm, whatever. This
> makes a handy viewer - just hold the string below your eye at the
> focal length you want to use and frame your shot. Much easier to
> move around with this to find just the right vantage point and THEN
> move that 4x5, whether it's a folding bed camera or rail camera,
> Sinar or Deardorff, or pinhole! Cheap and effective!
>
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