Transporting 8"x10" DDS in the field.

Ian Grant

Subscriber
Joined
Aug 2, 2004
Messages
23,263
Location
West Midland
Format
Multi Format
I tend to carry my 10x8 camera, usually on its tripod, just leaving the dark-slides and lenses etc in the backpack. I prefer a proper backpack rather than the specialist photographer type as there's far more room. If the weather turns bad the camera fits easily into the backpack as well.

Ian
 

jp80874

Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2004
Messages
3,488
Location
Bath, OH 442
Format
ULarge Format
It depends on what terrain you wish to travel. I hike trails in our National Parks with a baby jogger purchased second hand on eBay. The jogger has three 20inch bicycle wheels, a parking brake and 100 pound shock absorbers. That is one heavy baby. I use it for 8x10 or 7x17. The film holders go in a bag on the bottom rails. A soft cooler bag holds lenses and stuff in the child seat. The camera mounted on a Ries head and tripod attach above the bag with bungy cord while the spikes go through holes drilled in the foot rest. The jogger is good for roads, trails, open fields. It will not work well on rocky trails or stairs. I am 68 and can go two miles out from the car with this and have been doing so for three years. http://babyjogger.com/performancemain.htm

John Powers
 

Pinholemaster

Member
Joined
Oct 17, 2005
Messages
1,566
Location
Westminster,
Format
8x10 Format
How many time do I have to post this same comment over and over and over again.

I put may Canham 10x8 in a package. I put my lenses in a camera bag. I put the film holders in another bag. The Reis tripod has its bag.

THEN I place them all in a 3-wheeled jogging stroller and push the stuff around. You get them cheap on eBay. Never buy new 'cause you let the mom's with the new babies do that.

Why bust your back?????????????????????

I think I've posted this solution about a dozen times this year, but whose counting.
 

Ian Grant

Subscriber
Joined
Aug 2, 2004
Messages
23,263
Location
West Midland
Format
Multi Format
The problem is that these wheeled devices don't function in most places I go. They can't climb styles, go through kissing gates, off the path, across scree, etc etc. They place limitations on your flexibility.

Ian
 

Ria

Member
Joined
Jan 3, 2005
Messages
160
Format
Large Format
"I think I've posted this solution about a dozen times this year, but whose counting."

Apparently you are.
 

Dave Miller

Member
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
3,882
Location
Middle Engla
Format
Medium Format

Nobody; keep posting.
 

Dave Miller

Member
Joined
Dec 22, 2003
Messages
3,882
Location
Middle Engla
Format
Medium Format
Trevor, somebody once said if a pictures is more than a 100 yards from his car it isn’t worth taking. Personally I put a 25 yard limit on such expeditions. However if you insist on being adventurous the baby buggy has some merit, especially if you have play a recording of a howling child whilst pushing it; you get sympathy that way, and people will open gates for you.
 
Last edited by a moderator:
OP
OP

Trevor Crone

Member
Joined
Nov 5, 2007
Messages
546
Location
SE.London
Format
Multi Format

Sorry, I must have missed the previous dozen, also I'm new to using this format. I did a search about transporting/carrying 8 x 10/10 x 8 but nothing 'poped-up' that was obvious.

But thanks for repeating it for my behalf. And no this is not sarcasm.

Regards,
Trevor.
 

jp80874

Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2004
Messages
3,488
Location
Bath, OH 442
Format
ULarge Format
Trevor Crone said:
John, you have about 10 years on me, I admire your tenacity. I was thinking of getting a trolley as used by fisherman but a baby-buggy is something else!
Click to expand...

Take a look at the link. This is not your mother's traditional pram. I may have one of the few baby joggers with a combined bicycle compass and bell. Not sure what to do with the bell, but I use the compass and watch to determine when the sun will be at a better angle if I don't like the angle of it's current position for a picture. The sun moves across the sky doesn't it? A 2500 year old Egyptian in gauze assured me it did.

The jogger or any other acceptable method allows an old guy to forget the quote attributed to Brett Weston, “that it is not photogenic if it is more than 50 feet from the car.”

You will note that the jogger folds up to fit a smaller space in the car. For long trips I have a steel mesh basket, 2' by car width, that fits in the trailer hitch. Recently at Bill Schwab's Photostock 2008 I carried the jogger and a spare gas tank in the basket and a 9' inflatable Avon dingy on the roof. There was a 4hp outboard motor in the back seat. That is another way to carry a big camera, again depending on where you want to carry it. Beware of Ries 2" spikes in the Avon. There is no sanity test to be a photographer.

John Powers
 

Ian Grant

Subscriber
Joined
Aug 2, 2004
Messages
23,263
Location
West Midland
Format
Multi Format
I'd like to see you taking that pram over the North Yorkshire moors, or up the Glyders in Wales, tramping round Cornwall, or the Trossachs in Scotland. It's just not feasible unless you stick to roads or paths. So what do you do with it when you go to make a photo, abandon it half a mile away by the side of the path ?

Ian
 

Tom Hoskinson

Member
Joined
Mar 7, 2004
Messages
3,867
Location
Southern Cal
Format
Multi Format
I'll just continue to use my Dick Gregory Back Pack to haul my 8x10 camera, lenses and film holders up and down the mountains.

I'm only 73.
 

jeroldharter

Member
Joined
Nov 6, 2005
Messages
1,955
Location
Wisconsin
Format
4x5 Format
Pinholemaster said:
How many time do I have to post this same comment over and over and over again.

I think I've posted this solution about a dozen times this year, but whose counting.
Click to expand...

I know that is frustrating. But could you tell me which film and developer to use?

Just kidding. I think a large part of the problem is that searches are difficult because people try to use cute titles for posts which become impossible to search efficiently.
 

jp80874

Member
Joined
Jul 28, 2004
Messages
3,488
Location
Bath, OH 442
Format
ULarge Format

Now Ian don't get your tail feathers in an uproar. If you will remember I prefaced my jogger suggestion with, "It depends on what terrain you wish to travel. I hike trails in our National Parks ..." If that is not where you take your camera you need something else, perhaps the rubber dingy.

I am shooting a 100 picture series for a book along the tow path of a canal that has been out of service since the flood of 1913. The jogger works great for me. There is no one tool that fits all. We have different cameras for the same reason.

John Powers
 

Ian Grant

Subscriber
Joined
Aug 2, 2004
Messages
23,263
Location
West Midland
Format
Multi Format

Now I've had two big exhibitions of canal photographs

The abandoned Leominster-Stourport Canal would be a very definite no go for your pram !! It's hard enough walking it anyway.

I can actually see a use for your wheeled device but it really does limit your viewpoint to where it can be taken, which is very limiting. I have been thinking of an Irish wolfhound, I think they can carry packs like a mule or donkey.

I take your point about hiking trails, but creativity means you nearly always need to leave the trail to get the best viewpoint for an image.

Ian
 

Ian Grant

Subscriber
Joined
Aug 2, 2004
Messages
23,263
Location
West Midland
Format
Multi Format
Taking things back on topic.

For many years I used a racing bike to get about with my LF equipment, the bike itself is very light, a hand built by Barry Hoban. I could and did drag this bike off tracks and paths and over very rugged terrain. With panniers over the back wheel I carried all my equipment very easily.

I just can't see the practicality of the 3 wheeled pram.

Ian
 

Ian Grant

Subscriber
Joined
Aug 2, 2004
Messages
23,263
Location
West Midland
Format
Multi Format
with lighter wheels maybe.

I favoured the apprentice (AlanC and the film crew of "Heartbeat" met one of them - twins) to carry some of my gear until she decided she'd use my 5x4 if I was shooting 10x8

It's difficult being practical and remaining flexible. The large wheels of the racing bike make of track ventures easy, but the fishing or golf trolleys are less practical and 3 wheels would be impossible.

Ian
 

df cardwell

Subscriber
Joined
Jul 16, 2005
Messages
3,357
Location
Dearborn,Mic
Format
Multi Format
jp80874 said:
I hike trails in our National Parks with a baby jogger purchased second hand on eBay. [/url]
 John Powers
Click to expand...

None of this is true. Powers uses a 250cc MX bike.

How did he (Ansel) get that Station Wagon halfway up Half Dome ?

He didn't. The picture was made on a movie lot in Hollywood.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn more…