Horseman Convertible

[Brian Legge]

After looking for one at a good price for a while, I finally broke down and purchased a Horseman Convertible.

These shots are from my 2 'test rolls' with it. Unfortunately the back has a light leak that killed a few shots and the lens had just enough haze to put a halo around the higher contrast elements (rendering a few other shots worthless), but overall I'm impressed. Its certainly an interesting camera; hopefully I'll be able to sort out the issues.

 

[charjohncarter]

Great shots, I can't believe nobody has responded, I used a friends once. It was great, he sold it; I wished I had bought it.

 

[Dante_Stella]

The Convertible 842 is the ancestor of the SW612, only for whatever reason, Horseman never went beyond the 62mm. I've seen a couple of homebrew setups that used other lenses with the 842, but it was a fairly closed system.

In some ways, the SW series was a step backwards - bigger, an incompatible type of roll holder (rather than the mini graflok of the Convertible), less cool cocking and shooting levers, and lack of wireframe finders. But in some steps, it was a step ahead - it is very easy to change backs; it does 6x12; and between what Horseman sold and what Chinese manufacturers make for lens cones, you can mount pretty much anything to the camera. Also, massively more expensive.