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I've never seen this addressed in any reading, and now that I've
finally got a 4x5 I'm wondering.... For those of you who backpack with more than one lens, do you carry the lenses mounted on the boards, or do you just bring one board for each shutter size and carry a lens wrench? The former, while a bit heavier, is obviously much quicker. Thanks for the enlightenment (or enheavyment, depending on the replies!). Steve |
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Stephan Goldstein wrote:
I've never seen this addressed in any reading, and now that I've finally got a 4x5 I'm wondering.... For those of you who backpack with more than one lens, do you carry the lenses mounted on the boards, or do you just bring one board for each shutter size and carry a lens wrench? The former, while a bit heavier, is obviously much quicker. I would never consider trying to mount lenses in the field. You want to do that where you have a good clean surface to work on and you don't have to worry about wind, dust, and other inclement elements. Lens boards are not all that heavy. I would recommend getting a board for each lens. Thanks for the enlightenment (or enheavyment, depending on the replies!). Steve |
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For those of you who backpack with more than one lens, do you
carry the lenses mounted on the boards, or do you just bring one board for each shutter size and carry a lens wrench? I've never heard of anyone actually carrying a single board for each shutter size and using that one board for all lenses of the same shutter size while backpacking. I'm sure there is somebody out there who does that but by far the more common practice in my experience is a board on each lens. "Stephan Goldstein" wrote in message ... I've never seen this addressed in any reading, and now that I've finally got a 4x5 I'm wondering.... For those of you who backpack with more than one lens, do you carry the lenses mounted on the boards, or do you just bring one board for each shutter size and carry a lens wrench? The former, while a bit heavier, is obviously much quicker. Thanks for the enlightenment (or enheavyment, depending on the replies!). Steve |
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No...each lens is already on a board. I do recall a system that was advertised
wherein the lenses were put in some kind of smaller "univeral" mount and appropriately sized lens boards that accepted this "universal" mount were then purchased and thus the lenses could be carried with just the smaller mount on them and snapped into place on one lensboard. This was also a solution for those who had systems with differing lensboard sizes...the lenses could be switched between different boards easily. argon |
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I have a board for each of the lenses. I do this for a couple of reasons.
The first is I don't want the wear and tear of unmounting and mounting the lenses on either the lens or lens board. The second and most important reason is that I'm afraid I'll drop the lens while changing it out on the board. Stephan Goldstein wrote: : I've never seen this addressed in any reading, and now that I've : finally got a 4x5 I'm wondering.... : For those of you who backpack with more than one lens, do you : carry the lenses mounted on the boards, or do you just bring one : board for each shutter size and carry a lens wrench? The former, : while a bit heavier, is obviously much quicker. : Thanks for the enlightenment (or enheavyment, depending on the : replies!). : Steve -- Keep working millions on welfare depend on you ------------------- |
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"Stephan Goldstein" I've never seen this addressed in any reading, and now that I've finally got a 4x5 I'm wondering.... For those of you who backpack with more than one lens, do you carry the lenses mounted on the boards, or do you just bring one board for each shutter size and carry a lens wrench? The former, while a bit heavier, is obviously much quicker. Thanks for the enlightenment (or enheavyment, depending on the replies!). Steve I'm not out shooting yet, but I would definitely have each lens mounted on a board. And for travel in any way, each lens/board is wrapped in a padded velcro wrapper, caps on both sides of each lens. Alex |
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you can fabricate a similar setup easily using filter stack caps. One stack cap goes on the lens board, where it is drilled out as appropriate (or you can mount a lens filter ring etc.). The matching filter stack cap is then drilled out and the lens mounted in it. Stack caps are relatively cheap and light, making it easy to have a lot of lenses for use with one board (esp. with a focal plane body camera). The filter stack caps are aluminum or some other metal which can easily be cut and used to mount different lenses in shutter. You need a stack cap for each lens. I have used this setup more for macro lenses on bellows, such as those obsolete glass lenses from 8mm and 16mm movie cameras, but the original idea was in an article in Modern Photography in the 1960s IIRC on mating different lenses to homebrew LF or MF cameras. The obvious point is that the lenses have to be relatively modest in size. A related use for this trick is to modify a large cheapy shutter (e.g. alphax from oscilloscope lens) on a lens board and then put a treaded step-up ring matching the shutter outer lens cell threads to a standard filter size (e.g., 52mm, 67mm etc.). Now you can mount your junkbox lenses onto a leaf shutter (rather more flexible than a Packard shutter). just some ideas - blasts from the past ;-) hth bobm -- ************************************************** ********************* * Robert Monaghan POB 752182 Southern Methodist Univ. Dallas Tx 75275 * ********************Standard Disclaimers Apply************************* |
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