How much does your view/field camera weigh?

[Harrigan]

I don't like heavy cameras. I hike with a very ugly modified century 8x10 that is about 5 pounds and use a very light tripod with it. This super light kit takes alot of patience to make work and wind is a serious problem. I doubt most people would find it sufficient but I've never had a soft neg with it and its great if you know how to handle it. Of course its only for wide angle use 240mm and shorter but that is what I use most. For wind I switch to a heavier 10 pound 8x10 wista which isn't exactly a heavy beast either. For 4x5 I also use a wista which is really light and the model copied (basically) by all those china camera makers.

[Surly]

Quick correction, My Calumet is a CC400 not a CC401. I pulled out the manual to see if there was a stated weight, there was not but the specs indicated I have the shorter (16" bellows) version. So the CC400 is 10#'s.

[Tom Hoskinson]

I don't like heavy cameras. I hike with a very ugly modified century 8x10 that is about 5 pounds and use a very light tripod with it. This super light kit takes alot of patience to make work and wind is a serious problem. I doubt most people would find it sufficient but I've never had a soft neg with it and its great if you know how to handle it. Of course its only for wide angle use 240mm and shorter but that is what I use most. For wind I switch to a heavier 10 pound 8x10 wista which isn't exactly a heavy beast either. For 4x5 I also use a wista which is really light and the model copied (basically) by all those china camera makers.

This subject has been "around the block" several times at APUG

See: http://www.apug.org/forums/forum44/3...ack-weigh.html

Here is my personal 8x10 kit:

Gregory G Pack 2.875 lb.
Pentax Spotmeter 1.1 lb.
300mm Apo Germinar lens in Copal Shutter 0.8 lb
110mm SA XLS lens 1.4 lb.
150mm SA XLS lens 2 lb
8x10 filmholder 1.3 lb
8x10 filmholder 1.3 lb
8x10 filmholder 1.3 lb
8x10 filmholder 1.3 lb
Blackjacket 0.4 lb.
Wehman 8x10 Field Camera 8.7 lb.
Gitzo Carbon Composite Tripod , Arca Swiss BallHead & Tripod bag 6 lb.
Total Weight 28.475 lb
minus 150mm lens 26.475 lb.
minus 110mm lens 25.075 lb.
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Tom Hoskinson (73 yrs old and counting)

[B&Jdude]

My Cambo SCX outweighs my B&J 4x5, 5x7, & 8x10 Commercial Views all together . . . I wonder if that X-rail is lead filled?

EuGene

[Bill Mitchell]

(All 4x5, without lens): 1)Nagaoka 2.5#, 2)TR Crown Graphic 4.25#, 3) Busch Pressman D 4.5#, 4) Super Graphic 5.0#, 6) TR Speed Graphic and Technika IV about 6#.

[BBarlow690]

My new Richard Ritter 8x10, with its carbon fiber rails and 32" of bellows, weighs 6 and a quarter pounds without a lens. Yum.