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For Sale FS: Arca Twin Lens 4x5 Camera

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B.S.Kumar

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Location
Nara, Japan
Format
4x5 Format
For sale is a rather clever and unusual twin lens 4x5 camera, designed to be used on an Arca Swiss rail. I have confirmed that it mounts on an Arca Swiss Oschwald carrier. It is made of components from Japanese cameras. The lens panels are almost certainly from the Nagaoka Super Wide. The top panel can be moved 15mm up and down for parallax correction. For some unknown reason, the mounting rail is on the long side, rather than on the short side. You might want to add some sort of mounting system on the bottom. It accepts Linhof Technika lens boards. The backs are fixed in landscape orientation. Perhaps the camera was designed for group portraits. The Toyo focusing screens are bright and clear. Both the bellows are light-tight and supple, and extend from 65mm to 210mm. With a bit of workmanship it could be mounted on most any monorail, or even used handheld. The camera weighs only 1.8 kilos, less than most metal field cameras.

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Price: 90,000 JPY / ~585 USD, including worldwide shipping.

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Thanks for looking,
Kumar