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Ideal Beginner Large Format Field Camera

It's obviously a very well travelled joke then ( but not in a Lada ).
 
RobC said:
Reminds me of the old jokes about Lada cars...

Why do Lada's have heated rear windows?
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To keep your hands warm whilst pushing them.
 
I found an add for a Brand View in Popular Photography 1946, $162.50, that would be $1975.61 in 2015 money.
 
In 1946 many photographers were desperate for a camera. They would buy a Brand or New Vue, perhaps with intentions of upgrading when possible. Both were reasonably functional and took standard 4" lens boards. Several years later a New Vue was my first view camera. I also had a Mercury II. Now we have APUG and other sites to guide us.
 

If you were in the UK I'd recommend that you look for an MPP MkVII with a 150mm Symmar (convertible) lens. They are field cameras that also have a rangefinder for hand held work. You view the subject when making the exposure hand-held through a wire frame "sports" viewfinder, which folds out of the way when not needed. There is a substantial strap on the side that makes holding it a safe prospect. On a tripod they give you a very wide range of movements for both the front and the rear standards. They are built to a high engineering standard and close up with the Symmar in place, protecting it inside its all metal construction. The revolving back makes swapping from horizontal to vertical format a very easy process. A very versatile tool and ideal for your purposes...



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RobC said:
Why do Lada's have heated rear windows?
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What do you call a Lada with twin exhaust pipes ?

Regular Rod said:
If you were in the UK I'd recommend that you look for an MPP MkVII with a 150mm Symmar (convertible) lens. They are field cameras that also have a rangefinder for hand held work.
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The MPP range finder will only work if the cam is calibrated for the lens. With these cameras passing through so many hands and a large variety of lenses capable of being fitted, it is almost impossible to find a matching cam. That said, it is possible to cut a new cam, but you'd need to do this for each lens, and if you use a convertible, two cams would be needed.

Despite the cam issues, the MPP is still a nice camera - Robust, simple to use, and reasonably compact.
 
What do you call a Lada with a sunroof?
 
What do you call a Lada with ....
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Apologies to any Lada owners. Lada, like Skoda & Fiat were the butt of many jokes in the UK, and I suspect, in many other parts of the world.
 
paul_c5x4 said:
Apologies to any Lada owners. Lada, like Skoda & Fiat were the butt of many jokes in the UK, and I suspect, in many other parts of the world.
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Don't worry, if they drive a lada it'll be years before they read these jokes via carrier-pigeon.
 
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