Largest RF -- rigid and folding

[pagpow]

so, we did the smallest, what is the largest rigid-bodied RF? (ie without bellows)

and if we relax that constraint, how much bigger do we get?

 

[Solinar]

There is one that immediately comes to mind. However, it is only a 6x9 medium format RF, the name of which I'm having trouble remembering.

Anyone still shooting with a Mamiya Universal or a Koni Omega Rapid?

 

[Brennotdan]

Still?! I'm just beginning to shoot with a Rapid 100, fresh from Greg Weber with the 58mm lens! Yet I am drooling over your GW...

 

[oftheherd]

Yep still shooting with a Mamiya Super Press 23. I have the 150mm, 100mm f/3.5, 65mm (currently not working), and a 50mm. It doesn't get used as much as it used to, but I still get it out from tme to time for both the big negative and great lenses. Much as I like my MF folders, I think the ability to change lenses sometimes outweighs (pun intended) them.

 

[David Goldfarb]

Commonly available, I'd say the Linhof 5x7" Technika.

I suspect there are probably some 8x10" Technikas and Graphics out there in the world of prototypes and collectibles.

 

[sirius]

People would laugh at me shooting with that big camera, which could be a good thing if your into portraits...

 

[Travelbug]

Linhof Technika 13x18 (5x7") with Rangefinder

http://cgi.ebay.de/LINHOF-TECHNIKA-...oryZ8277QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[pagpow]

So are we saying:

Rigid body: Koni-Omega or Mamiya Press

Scaled up 35 form factor: Fuji 6x9

Press/Technical: Linhof Technika 5X7 (bigger than 5x7 graphics and MPPs?)

So the Pola 110B 4x5 conversions don't even figure, eh?

Anyone actually see a larger (larger than 5x7) format RF?

 

[erikhaugsby]

So the Pola 110B 4x5 conversions don't even figure, eh?

They've got bellows.

 

[julianphotoart]

How about the Graflex Combat Graphic? It's a massive inflated copy of a Contax rangefinder that was made for 70mm film.

 

[pagpow]

So do the press and technical ones -- we were doing two classes: rigid AND folding

 

[Glenn2]

Just thinking of hand holding a Technika 5x7 makes my elbows hurt.

Recently had a good friend (Dunc Lindsay) e-mail me this shot he took about 35 years ago. We had taken off in my Landrover for a day of landscape shooting in the Rockies west of Calgary.... Sometimes the tripod's not high enough and you have to get creative. After all isn't the Technika just a Leica on steroids... ;-!

Glenn

 

[David Goldfarb]

A 4x5" Technika is a very handholdable camera (and the 2x3" even more so). I use it that way pretty often.

Our host mentions that there were sixteen 8x10" Technikas made--

http://www.cameraquest.com/techs.htm

I've never seen one, and there are no pictures of it in the current edition of The Linhof Story, though maybe it's mentioned in the back somewhere, where they index all the different models. We're in the midst of moving, so my copy is packed up at the moment.

 

[pagpow]

Now that would be interesting to see.