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Old February 25th 18, 09:04 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default Now all I need is a 4x5 digital back.

On 2018-02-25 08:32:07 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 08:46:55 +0100, android wrote:

On 2018-02-24 21:46:13 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:15:11 +0100, android wrote:

On 2018-02-23 21:04:33 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

Chroma camera
https://www.dpreview.com/news/363112...4-field-camera




Apologies for no TinyURL. That's a decision made by Firefox. :-(

I would probably go for a used fieldie... Prey tell if you find an
affordable back to go with it... Good luck!

'affordable'. Now there is the operative word. :-(


Maybe you could adapt this benchcam approach to your fieldcam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXxjsz6J5Bg

Keep us posted! :-))


That's camera is a bit crude and doesn't have all the movements I
want. Also, I suspect it's as large as it is because of the problem of
making the more delicate parts in wood in a smaller size.
Traditionally they used to make them in brass. But the problem remains
of finding a full size digital back.


Well... The standard procedure these days seem to be to use film sheets
and scan those with a flatbed. The reasonable affordable digital back
options for LF that I've seen is either scannerbacks or stitching
ditto. I
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