New toy

I thought some of you might be interested in my latest toy. As it isn't Pentax I have posted it here rather than in the kit section... I hope you will all forgive me but Pentax doesn't make this sort of thing. I haven't had a chance to use it in anger yet, but the plan is to use it to photograph church architecture in which I have an interest. For those of you who care about that sort of thing it is manual focus, no built in exposure meter and takes about 2 fph (frames per hour...)




It is a Horseman LE.

Best wishes, Kris.

Wow, very handsome, where do you get film for a camera like that :

The bigger Jessops still carry it, and a company called Silverprint specialise in film, developers and traditional paper. The stuff is still around and not too difficult to source, especially online.

Best wishes, Kris.

Nice gimmick.

greetings f248

Gimmick? Hardly. It is a serious piece of kit!

Fantastic bit of kit.

Is it called a Horseman because you need a packhorse to carry one and a man to take the picture?

No problem with tilt and shift perspectives there I would guess. Have fun.

Well my trusty Bandit 1200 will do the carrying. It is the tilt and shift facility that was my rationale for going down this route. I hate converging verticals!

Fun will certainly be had.

Best wishes, Kris.

What a great beast - enjoy it!
Andy

Guess you can call off the hunt for that 28mm shift now then?

Nice camera anyway - what lens(es) did you get with it?

Fantastic piece of kit. For serious architecture you need this sort of camera as it not only enables correct verticals but the plane of focus can be adjusted too - all to much greater extents than any tilt shift lens on an SLR can

Good luck
Bob

2 fph

Nice piece of kit Kris, enjoy it.
Hope you show your results here, not Pentax I know
A mate was looking to buy a big 5x4 to 'slow' him down.

ali

In my former job, where I did some product photography, we sometimes hired a professional photographer from Oslo. He used the Sinar large-format camera, similar to the Horseman.

It never stopped amazing me to watch this guy tilting and shifting the front and back plates to get just the right perspective with perfectly parallel lines. And he managed a lot more than 2 fph.

Brings back happy memories.

You'll get us all wanting one!

Andy

Yup, that lens is now on the back burner.

It came with a 210mm lens (equivalent of a c. 90mm on 35mm) which is not really what I need. I am now looking for something in the c. 90mm range and may well sell the 210mm to pay for it. Although as you know, selling lenses is easier to say than to do...

He had the advantage of knowing what he was doing. I am going to be on a steep learning curve. It is a bit difficult to merge into the background with one of these.

Will do, although it might be a little while before I have something I am happy to post!

Best wishes, Kris.

Kris forgives.
gimmick, (I used a synonym).
machines is similar a ginmick.

Greetings f248