Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/09

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Subject: Re: OT Re: [Leica] Littman 4x5 single (the Texas Leica)
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:01:36 -0800
References: <20021209221130.66432.qmail@web10706.mail.yahoo.com>

At 2:11 PM -0800 12/9/02, Pat Perez wrote:
>Looks like a fun camera.
>
>But if that is the Texas Leica, then I guess the
>Alaska Leica is the Granview
>
>http://www.granview.com/8x10C.html
>
>
>And I suppose that makes my Brooks Veriwide the Texas
>Hologon <g>
>
>--- John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>  http://www.littman45single.com/
>>
>>  On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 11:22 AM, Johnny
>>  Deadman wrote:
>>
>  > > So my Littman 4x5 single finally arrived....

As the Veriwide is neither that wide, nor produces LF negs, a better 
candidate is probably something like the Cambo DS:
http://www.cambo.com/capages/wideds.html

I've used a couple of its ancestors for 25 years, with 35mm, 47mm and 
65mm lenses. It can be a bit of a scary snapshot camera, but it works 
well.

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