Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 6x9 or so called medium format view cameras were not used by a whole lot of people that I ever knew about. For a more compact version of a 4x5 camera you got to pay more; as they just made less of them from all I can tell. A roll film back on the back of a 4x5 sets you up just as well. And you also have the option of shooting 4x5. And shooting polaroids. But this all seemed to change with the millennium and the change to digital. 4x5 digital backs it seems are closer to medium format than 4x5. So the smaller medium format versions of these system cameras are ideal for the job. Not that you could not put them behind your 4x5. I think the medium format versions seem more precise. Outdoors less blowing around in the wind. At any rate instead of them being a fraction of a percent of the market I think they now dominate it. Way over the 4x5's. Having spent 40,000 bucks on a digital back optimizing the size of the camera in sits behind for a few grand seems doable. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:46:50 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Tilt-Shift Miniatures > > Hmm, I'd think I'd rather have a 5x4 view camera. Using 6x9 is best done > (well cheaper anyway) with a secondhand (or maybe thirteenthhand) > Voigtlander Bessa. I've a 1936 rangefinder one with a Helomar lens which > works well. OK tilt and shift it doesn't do.... > > Douglas > _________ > Douglas Barry > Bray, Co. Wicklow > Republic of Ireland