FS: Sinar Handy with 3 lenses and heaps more
Finally up for sale is my much loved Sinar Handy. This is a bit of a hard-to-find 4x5" camera and this one comes with all of the bells and whistles.
IMO this is the best hand-held 4x5 you can get and I guess that's why Sinar charged so much when it was first released. It has a shutter release on the handle but you can unscrew the handle and simply mount the camera on a tripod as it uses the same socket. Included in the package are 3 lenses with their dedicated helical focussing mounts. This allows easy focusing without the use of a bellows keeping it very light and compact for travelling.
The 3 lenses are:
1. Super-Angulon 65mm f5.6
2. Super-Angulon 90mm f8
3. Apo Symmar 120mm f5.6.
The 65mm and 120mm are spotless with all times working beautifully. All lenses come with both caps but I put Lee filter adapters on all of these lenses and can't find the front cap for the 120mm so I'll include the adapter and it's cap with that lens. The 90mm was serviced with the other 2 by Eric Owen in Australia 2 years ago but it looks to have a bit of Schneideritis appearing on the internal element. Nothing to be overly concerned about and I'm sure it wont effect images. The overly cautious might have it serviced again. This whole kit has lived in my dehumidifying cabinet since I purchased it long ago.
The camera also comes with a Sinar Zoomback (you can even have the FP4 that's loaded ) that allows you to shoot 120 or 220 rollfilm in formats from 6x6, 6x7, 6x9 and 6x12. You'll see an adapter that connects directly to the fresnel behind the groundglass to allow you to accurately compose on the groundglass if you don't wish to use the viewfinder (this piece is often missing from these). The detachable viewfinder can also be adjusted to suit the format you're shooting and an additional element then connects to the viewfinder to allow accurate focussing when shooting 4x5".
The Sinar Binocular Reflex Viewer looks and works just fine (standard scuffs for its age) but has a minor crack on the plastic where it mounts to the camera thats been repaired with glue at some stage. This doesn't affect its performance.
All in all this is a very complete kit for either hand-held 4x5 or 120/220 work (right up to 6x12 panos) or as a lightweight tripod mounted kit.
Forget bellows factors, the helical mounts allow you to hyperfocal distance and burn through film all day
$1800 for the lot + shipping and 3% of the total for Paypal
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