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Re: The best 4x5 field camera

2004-02-09 by jackperk

Dear Arne,

Many photographers, I believe, will agree that the camera that offers the best 
combination of beauty, functionality and engineering for 4x5 work is the wonderful 
Wisner Technical Field camera carefully crafted in Massachussetts by Ron Wisner 
and his people. They are beautiful wood cameras with bright brass fittings. They 
look good, they shoot good. I have used one for several years with great 
satisfaction and pleasure.

In fact, having moved away from large format shooting now, I am about to sell my 
Wisner if you might be interested

Jack


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Arne Olsson" 
<535olsson@t...> wrote:
> Hi all Photographers in the World!
>  
> Here in Sweden it's soon springtime and every year I feel the same.
> I just have to buy a wooden flatbed 4x5" field camera, just for fun, to use
> in the new light.
> Otherwise I use Nikon D100 today for snapshots and my Swedish Hasselblad for
> BW Fine Art.
>  
> Which camera do you recommend me to buy? Which are the absolutely best for
> nature photography and
> which give "most for the money"? Are there any special accessories you will
> call attention to?
> I already have bought 4 Rodenstock lenses in Linhof Technica boards.
>  
> I'm then going to scan the BW negs into Phsp and print using an Epson 2100.
> But some of them
> I will treat conventionally in the darkroom. Just for fun and to relax from
> the daily stress. It's time to
> stop, look back in the mirror and fulfill an old dream. This camera must
> also be beautiful but not to heavy.
>  
> / Arne Olsson
>  
>  
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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