Let's see your "beast" afield!

Vonder

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I was out yesterday with two film cameras, an EOS-1 loaded with color print film and my Mamiya RB67 with B&W. The Mamiya looked so cute in the woods, I had to take its portrait. It's a chore to lug the "beast" back into the woods, but the results do pay off.

Show your big boy out in the wild!
 

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Bumped to photography group few days ago and one of them took this pic.
 
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Vonder

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Lots of great pics! Some of you guys have strong backs. Or a Sherpa!
 

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Pieter12 said:
#1 & #3 look like pretty spindly tripods for such big cameras!
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The RB is only about 7lbs of camera, doesn't take that much to support them.
 

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Great field beast. Is that ball head rigid enough for that camera?
 

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My weight rating is working out just fine.
 
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Dan Fromm said:
Extremely large for medium format.
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Ooops, sorry. didn't read the fine print!

Here's my Bronica SQ-A shown on location pointed at Tunkhannock Viaduct. That's a Delaware&Lackawanna RR bridge 240 feet above the Tunkhannock Creek and 2375 feet long; found along US Route 11 near Nicholson, PA. I believe it's regarded as the largest reinforced concrete railroad structure in the world; it certainly was when it was built in the early 1900s.
(Note I only had to carry the rig about100 feet. )
 
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Dan Fromm said:
Yes, the cameras are getting larger. Extremely large for medium format.
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I use a 6x7 and 6x9 holder on the Century Graphic. It's in effect a 120 rangefinder that can also take 2x3 film. I also shoot 35mm through it for that Xpan look.

 
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