Re: [RBW] Cameras On Bikes

[Keith Paugh]

Drew, This is awesome.  Beautiful 4x5 camera that I would like to know more about. Good on you for transporting it by bike too. I have been working on doing this with my medium format camera with limited success. Tripods present particularly prickly problems. I need to figure out more lashings. Thanks for posting! I’d love to see some of your resulting images. k. On Aug 9, 2024, at 3:11 PM, Drew Saunders <drew.saund...@gmail.com> wrote:  OK, I know the theme is carrying cameras, mostly film cameras, on rides, but here's how I bike with a rather large camera. I only take this setup up to 2-3 miles, so it's clearly riding to photograph, not carrying a camera just in case I want to photograph.  <IMG_7068.jpeg> <IMG_7069.jpeg> <IMG_7071.jpeg> <IMG_7072.jpeg> So, what's in that rather large backpack? <IMG_7073.jpeg> <IMG_7075.jpeg> That's an Ebony 45SU 4x5" large format film camera. Like the Quickbeam, it's from 2008, but since a lot of people assume that a wood and leather camera must be ancient, I like to tell them "it's an oh-eight" and let them guess the century. Hint: The metal bits are titanium, so it's not that old!  I have the Photobackpacker (a.k.a. RPT, and the guy fully retired recently, so, like the Ebony, it can't be bought new any more) modified Kelty backpack and Photobackpacker system to carry the camera and lenses. I sometimes carry up to 6 lenses, but today went on an "all wide" excursion, carrying my 65mm, 80mm, 125mm and 135mm lenses, but didn't end up using the 135. For those of you who are wondering "what's the 'crop factor'?" well, it's complicated to compare a 2:3 ratio (24x36mm) to a 4:5 ratio (96x120mm), but 3.5 is good enough, so those are all pretty wide lenses. I like to choose a few lenses for each excursion. I have, let's just say, more than four lenses. Possibly way more than four... The big side pocket carries the film holders and is sized for the sadly out of production Quickload/Readyload holders and film. The Tripod is a Manfrotto 441 (not sure what the current equivalent would be) with a rather heavy Manfrotto 410 geared head.  Here's the 125 in use: <IMG_7078.jpeg> Extremely eagle-eyed observers may notice that I swapped to the bag bellows. Most of you are thinking "bag what now?" I probably should get an electric cargo bike some day. Drew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/547ab3a7-7ae4-4f5b-a4b2-4a192ba2d56fn%40googlegroups.com. <IMG_7068.jpeg> <IMG_7069.jpeg> <IMG_7075.jpeg> <IMG_7072.jpeg> <IMG_7071.jpeg> <IMG_7078.jpeg> <IMG_7073.jpeg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/C330C415-AE80-4032-9173-F2CF94FA1E3C%40gmail.com.