Recent content by raathistle

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I love mine, and the viewfinder intrusion isn't really ever enough to really bother me, but with current prices I'd be hard pressed to buy again

Yeah, colour 8x10 is somewhere I never dared to tread. Picked up a single box of transparency that's been in the freezer ever since I got it, but never brave enough to go for it. I've seen a couple and they're absolutely spectacular though

Ahh, amazing. I hadn't seen Nik and Trick so that super helpful. Now I know how much I need to make from my other gear too, so that's perfect. I might have a look at chucking some of the gear on the classified on here, not sure there's a huge appetite for 8x10 stuff though (although that was 5...

Hi all, having not really been active using any of my gear since a bit before the pandemic, I'm now looking to get back into things, I was looking for a Shen Hao 617 field camera to replace some 5x4 and 8x10 gear I'll be moving on. It used to be possible to pick these up from ffordes, or there...

Not me on the peaches front, if they were mine they would have been eaten :D

It's not mine, I'm sat wearing it watching Harry Potter as well and drinking one of the beers from @Carl Hall

Not really sure Chris, not much though. You'll be able to try it out tomorrow

I'm only 2 hours away from the house tonight so should be there for 4 as well unless something has gone drastically wrong (or right I guess)

I've got a ball head and a benro geared head which I use with my LF gear. I initially didn't like the ball head as I'm not used to them, but I'm coming round t it now. The main issue is keeping things level when adjusting in the other axis, with a smaller camera it's probably a bit easier but...

No worries. You can always have one on a loan to try out, they mostly just sit inside shelf these days :(

I wasn't, and am supposed to be away this week, but I've just had a delightful 4 hour drive back from the lakes to try and sort out an issue with the house. Lucky for you this means I can now bring the whole Mamiya 6 family for you to play with to your heart's content I've got a 6 and a 6MF...

I keep mine in either my fstop smallish ICU for the 4x5 gear or in the photobackpacker case that I got at the same time as the 8x10. I tried keeping them wrapped in things or in individual pouches but found it a bit fiddly

I was thinking 8x10 and 5x4, plus a little bit of digital maybe. Potentially a little super8 as well

In all honesty I've never really liked ball heads in general, I much prefer a 3-way head so I can control each a is individually. I imagine it's entirely possible to use the ball head I have with the 8x10, the guy I bought it from certainly had been and had made some quite spectacular images with it