Finally Ordered
OK, I’ve finally bought myself a Large Format camera. Pay day was yesterday and within seconds of seeing my pay cheque hit the bank, the order was in with Ken from Robert White. He also was very kind enough to find my a rear lens cap for my cheap Symmar S. So sometime today (hopefully) a 45SU, Schneider 4x loupe and cable release should be arriving. At this point I’m going to be very excited and put it all together and have that weird feeling of ‘what the hell do I do now?’. Well we’re off to the Yorkshire Sculpture park this afternoon and if all of the bits I need arrive (which I don’t think they will, I’m still waiting for the dark cloth and the arca swiss mount from America) then I’ll give it a go (much to Charlotte’s embarrassment I’m sure). What will probably happen is me taking it out to the backyard and using a couple of old T-Shirts as a pseudo BlackJacket dark cloth.
On a side note, I’m working with a colleague on a project to build a fine art gallery website and in return for some of my input, he’s going to be purchasing a couple of lenses. So the final range of lenses I will have will be Schneider Super Symmar 80XL and 110XL, Rodenstock Sironar S 150, Fujinon A 240 and 300. The Symmar S will likely be donated to somebody on the Gower course next year.
